+1 on a parallel/complementary database.
we have lots of Civil War sites here in Georgia that would be fun to
map. it's a timely topic during the sesquicentennial years.
jack
On 3/26/2011 5:57 PM, Richard Welty wrote:
On 3/26/11 5:53 PM, Russ Nelson wrote:
Richard Welty writes:
> 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.
OSM doesn't have a good concept of time. It would be reasonable to put
non-current data into OSM except that it would show up in editors, and
renderers likely don't know about the ending-date tags and would
render data not currently present on the ground. E.g. at this time and
date General Custer was here, then he was there.
i'm debating whether or not i want to set up a parallel database, using
the OSM design, to contain historical data that can be used in a mashup
with OSM, and opening it up for historically minded mappers to use as
a laboratory for experiments in how one would tag this stuff.
richard
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