Graham Jones wrote:
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.
Historic mapping wiki page has yet to be created, but start_date and end_date would seem to replace the need for Key:historic:period if accurate data is available.
Having been watching a program recently on the development of various industrial areas of the UK, it would seem that there is substantial data available to provide historic maps. Development and decline of the railway system for example is something I've been gathering historic maps that provides considerable accurate timelines.
The only question that still has not been addressed is one that covers a lot of parallel data. SHOULD it be uploaded to the main database, or should we have a working method for linking secondary databases into the rendering process. Which to my mind still provides the most logical way forward. But at what point does an historic element get degraded to the secondary storage area? Or more important ... what classifies historic data as being 'main stream'?
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