In some cases, portions of the sites are still extant, and could be shown on current maps; other portions are no longer in existence, and should show up only on historical maps, or rendered in a different color, as a historical overlay. So, the tagging would need to distinguish between the two statuses.
-------Original Email------- Subject :Re: [Talk-us] Civil War sites >From :mailto:[email protected] Date :Mon Mar 28 08:46:32 America/Chicago 2011 +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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > > _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us -- John F. Eldredge -- [email protected] "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
