Shekhar - <div><br></div><div>These are good suggestions - we have already moved to the term "Historical."</div><div>See: <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Historical_OSM">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Historical_OSM</a>. We just haven't bothered to change the list name.</div>
<div><br></div><div>We also had a discussion on Historical OSM vs OSM Historical, but didn't really consider Open Historical Map at the time - see the latest email on subject here: <a href="http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/historic/2012-October/000060.html">http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/historic/2012-October/000060.html</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>That said, I don't think there's much of an investment & we could change easily.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks, Jeff<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 12:49 AM, Shekhar Krishnan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shekhar@topomancy.com" target="_blank">shekhar@topomancy.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p>Hi. </p>
<p>I wanted to discuss the use of the acronym "HOSM". </p>
<p>It seems to me it sounds way too similar to the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap team, which is very well-established and recognised in the community. We should not confuse identities. </p>
<p>I would prefer if we used "OHM" as in Open Historical Map, similar to projects like OpenCycleMap, etc. We have also registered this as the domain <a href="http://openhistoricalmap.net/.org" target="_blank">openhistoricalmap.net/.org</a>. </p>
<p>Also as a historian we rarely use the adjective "historic" and prefer the term "historical". Since the list and tag-line is already this I don't mind, but "HOSM" is not distinct enough. </p>
<p>Thoughts?</p>
<p>Best,<br></p>
<p>S.K.<br>
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