Hi Brian,
Open Historical Map has a sporadically active mailing list
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo "historic" which your mate might
like to join to get a feel for what is going on. It is very early stage
stuff though.
I map surface expression of historic mining activity in the north of
England but have not got around to the research and care needed to start
looking below the soil. My inclination, (perhaps not enthusiastically
shared by all!), has always been to test the barriers inside the main
OpenStreetMap databaset to try new things out and get other folk's
reaction by doing something concrete. I.e. Just Do It. Therefore, I
personally very much welcome archeaological mapping experiments in the
main database with the proviso that if it becomes widespread, some sort
of migration to an ancilliary dataset would almost certainly have to
happen. Open Historical Map being the likely candidate.
Simply because I have the floor, I also predict ancilliary datasets, the
technical support for them and the ability to mix and match with the the
main database, to be a coming OSM Big Thing. Our main database, and our
understanding of it, is beginning to mature in terms of structure,
maintenance and what should and should not be in it. So time to start
exploring the edges. There is a whole rich field: historic, ecological
and biological, geologic and geomorphologic, alternative coastlines,
boundaries, immutable "authorative" datasets, internal building mapping,
complex public transport interchanges, personal/school projects ...
yada, yada. Oh but there were 34 hours in each day!
Mike
On 31/08/2013 20:54, sk53.osm wrote:
Open Historical Map is a sandbox environment and has only been around
for a few months. It's far too early to write it off.
A more reliable link is probably hosm.gwhat.com
<http://hosm.gwhat.com>, but Jeff Meyer has been having problems with
the servers recently, and it doesn't seem to up atm.
Jerry
On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Brian Savidge <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
The openhistoricalmap is completely blank for me (both in Internet
Explorer and Chrome), so I guess it hasn't taken off.
It seems a shame not to add the data into OSM in some way assuming
the group finds something. Do you know of any examples of areas
where groups of Archaeologists (like Time Team) have added
information into OSM?
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Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2013 09:04:45 +0100
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping Archaeology
From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
CC: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
Was it http://www.openhistoricalmap.org you were thinking of?
On 31 Aug 2013 07:15, "Brian Savidge" <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi
A friend of mine belongs to a local Archaeology group and they
are going to do some surveying shortly using a variety of
methods including ground penetrating radar. I thought it
would be nice if somehow the results get put onto Open Street
Map.
Are buried walls and landscape features suitable for recording
on Open Street Map perhaps at level -1? I have a feeling I
saw something a while ago about a parallel open streetmap that
was intended for archaeology and recording things that are no
longer visible, but I have lost the link and can't find any
references to the site.
Any thoughts on the matter?
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