how this would get done is all part of the laboratory aspect of the
project. things
that exist, maps of current historical sites, are all reasonable things
for the
existing OSM database. the idea here is that things that no longer exist
but are
historically significant go in the history database and we use
openlayers to do
a mashup on top of a rendering of modern OSM. so you've distinguished by
having
two different databases, and the historical database can use tagging
that would
be considered clutter in modern OSM.
i will look into where this can be hosted, and look into setting up a
mailing list
for those interested in the project to communicate. i'd consider hosting
it on my
own hardware, but i think i'd like to increase the available disk space
first.
richard
On 3/28/11 10:10 AM, [email protected] wrote:
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
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