2010/11/10 Richard Weait <[email protected]>: > On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Laurence Penney <[email protected]> wrote: > By comparison, start_date, may well be used to note the construction > date or commissioning date of a bridge, but might also define the > seasonal hours of a tourist attraction only open during the summer.
IMHO the wiki is clear here: "start_date is the date the construction of feature finished." It is not about the construction being commissioned or started. > That said, I find the idea of OpenHistoryMap to be a curious idea. I > think the idea has potential interest to historians, students, > developers, genealogists and others. not to forget archaeologists. > But I also think it is > orthogonal to OSM. I'm not sure about this. May it be, that I live in Rome, where I can't do a step without meeting history, I believe that there is a strong link between the two. Often you find traces in the current city that would be nice to be integrated with historic data (and not be just parallel). I also agree with most of the previous posts here, that we shouldn't currently put historic geometry in our dataset, as we are not at all prepared (even using a different tagging scheme the geometry would clutter the editors and blow up API downloads). If we really wanted to open up for historic mapping, the API would have to change, as well as the db-scheme. cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
