On 2 January 2012 11:58, Joseph Reeves <iknowjos...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >the main thing that is missing from it is a list of 'cultures' or > 'civilizations' that we can all use. > > In the UK at least there's a defined and well used list of periods > provided by the Archaeology Data Service: > > http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/Imagebank/period.jsf > > That list has an elegant simplicity about it. Richard Light added a link to the wiki page to a classification system used by English Heritage ( http://light.demon.co.uk/eh-periods.rdf). Unfortunately it is in quite a complicated format, and I have not had chance to sit down and decode it into a simple proposal for tagging - do you know how this compares to your list? > Also please note that the above list is for the UK only. On the > continent, for example, different things happened and happened at > different times. It probably wouldn't be possible to get a coherent > tagging scheme across Europe that made any sense; there's simply not a > consistent European past that could be represented in such a way. > > I agree - the > historic:civilization<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:historic:civilization>page > has recommendations for different regions, so we would just need to add a suitable UK (or British Isles?), scheme to it. My concern was more about using 'culture' rather than 'civilization' and 'period' as that would seem to be a competing tagging system, rather than just a regional variation on a general scheme. Regards Graham. -- Graham Jones Hartlepool, UK.
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