Wonderful! I'm very happy to hear that. I'll be lurking and looking for ways I might be able to contribute. I worked as a writer for many years, as a copywriter and at a news station, and now I'm in online marketing. And my friend Joe is a lawyer. So maybe we will be able to contribute down the road, when you need to do some promotion, and also when you need to file frivolous lawsuits. (Joke.)<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 6:37 PM, Brad Thompson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brad@pastmapper.com" target="_blank">brad@pastmapper.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi Ed --<br>
<br>
Welcome to the group! Yes, you're definitely thinking along the same<br>
lines as many of us here. The possibility of crowdsourcing the<br>
'filling in' of map data throughout history is one of the reasons that<br>
OSM is so appealing as a platform. Much of the technical talk that's<br>
underway right now is related to making the necessary changes to the<br>
basic framework of OSM, which is already great for spatial data, to<br>
make it a viable place to store, edit, and work with data that is both<br>
spatial *and* temporal.<br>
<br>
Personally, I think it's great to hear you articulate so many of the<br>
use cases that have been discussed, both online and off, within this<br>
group (contributing data, adding tags, crosslinking with Wikipedia,<br>
etc). It's reassuring to hear that yet another person would find such<br>
a platform interesting and useful.<br>
<br>
A side note -- Dan Vanderkam (Dan, you're on here, right?) had a great<br>
demo a few months back that doesn't appear to be online anymore that<br>
displayed SVGs of country borders over time, with a slider running<br>
from ancient times through present day. It was very similar to what<br>
you described, albeit in a standalone demo format.<br>
<br>
-Brad<br>
<br>
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