The Motorway Junction tag at
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Motorway_junction has recently had
the exit_to tag added. Old interstate tagging advice at
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Interstate_Highway was to put exit
sign destinations in the name tag. However this is not exactly
Hi
Anyone interested in mapping civil war sites, maybe with a mapping
party? I mention because the anniversaries are all coming up.
Steve
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I would definitely be interested. We had a mapping party at Manassas
Battlefield last June, but there are so many other battlefields within an
easy drive of WashDC that need greater visibility on the map. And now that
the weather is moderating, it would be a great time to do some historical
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 4:00 AM, Steve Coast st...@asklater.com wrote:
Anyone interested in mapping civil war sites, maybe with a mapping party? I
mention because the anniversaries are all coming up.
Coincidentally I heard a segment on The Story last night about
Garrett Silliman, an
definitely. i've done some mapping of the Antietam Battlefield Park,
and would love to do more.
how do you (SteveC) envision this? there are numerous things that can be
mapped, but some would seem pretty unreasonable to attempt in OSM
as it is now (e.g., showing all the unit locations during the
FWIW, when we mapped at Manassas, we mapped what's on the ground now. Not to
say there couldn't be other approaches, but we didn't really have a plan in
hand to do historical mapping.
-- SEJ
t: @geomantic
s: sejohnson8
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely
of
historical mapping can be hard. i have the resources to do a bunch of it for
the Civil War, but the tagging system doesn't support a lot of the data and
it would just make a mess of the map, i think, right now.
but there are cases where we could tag historic road names where they differ
in a
So, Steve - when you made your initial query, did you have something in
mind?
There are scads of sites scattered throughout the Mid-Atlantic area and, as
you can see, a number of us with both interest and experience with mapping
historical sites. If we can bring our resources to bear (I'm
truly. i've spent a lot of time immersed in Antietam and the Maryland
Campaign of 1862 and would love to figure out a way to convey some
of that.
On 3/8/11 8:30 PM, Steven Johnson wrote:
So, Steve - when you made your initial query, did you have something
in mind?
There are scads of sites
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