Dear Dave, > On 26/09/2010 23:47, Richard Palmer wrote: > > I'm involved in a project looking at the history of a street in London > > (The Strand). One of things we'd like to do is produce a 'animated' map > > showing the changes along it from the C18th onwards. I've had a go at > > adding some attributes to OSM for building dates and then generated > > different tiles for layers each century, (quick demo up at: > > Is this what we should be using OSM for? For me OSM is for *current* > data (I've been deleting any demolished buildings).
Sorry, I should have made clear, for this project we're quite happy to run a seperate mapnik/openlayers server showing the data. Although I would be quite interested in building that up into a more general historical map server (ideally kept in sync with "current" OSM but historical information as well), but that's just a personal project (with lots of problems!) and not what's needed at the moment. > This project sounds great, but should be set up as a separate entity. > The database would become far to cluttered otherwise. Agreed. > I've an abandoned railway in my area where sections of it are now > invisible having been completely leveled & used as agricultural land. > Someone's tagged these as railway=abandoned. I don't think they should. Yes, what's more interesting (and now possible) for me would be showing the change in usage over time, especially for heavily mapped areas like London. regards, Richard -- Richard Palmer | Centre for E-Research & Systems Manager | Centre for Computing in the Humanities [email protected] | King's College London Tel: 0207 848 1973 _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
