<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span></span></div><div>OHM and the defaults on OSM are two separate things. We can (and should!) add our own defaults on ohm.org. </div><div><span style="background-color: transparent;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16.363636016845703px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">But whether the historic map layers are useful or cluttered on OSM.org is not really a concern for us here. We operate a separate database, and like most things in OSM, do so in an informal, unstructured way. </span><br></div><div><br></div><div>-Mikel</div><div></div><div></div><div> </div><div>* Mikel Maron
* +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron</div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Saturday, November 9, 2013 7:19 AM, Rob Nickerson <rob.j.nickerson@gmail.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv3093651050"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><br></div>Hi All,<br><br></div>Following on from my attempt to get new background layers added to the map editors, Paul Norman has decided to split the imagery list into two (current and historic) and is proposing removing historic layers to the historic
list - which basically means they will not appear as default options in ID, JOSM etc..<br>
<br></div>I have set out my reasons why I think this is a bad ideas here:<br><div><div><div><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2013-November/015482.html">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2013-November/015482.html</a><br>
<br></div><div>I guess my question is "Who owns Open Historical Map"? Is it part of OpenStreetMap, and if not, can we make it part of OpenStreetMap (i.e hand over to the OSM Foundation) so that it is no longer treated as a second class citizen?<br>
<br></div><div>Best regards,<br>Rob<br></div></div></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>Historic mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Historic@openstreetmap.org" href="mailto:Historic@openstreetmap.org">Historic@openstreetmap.org</a><br><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/historic" target="_blank">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/historic</a><br><br><br></div> </blockquote> </div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>