[Historic] Skeleton OSM-H wiki up

[Jeff Meyer]

Hi Lester -

Yes, this list is targeted at the latter camp - what would an OSM-filtered
view of 1820 London look like?

So, we're interested in the metadata of history & providing APIs to access
that information.

For the point about historic maps, Matt Knutzen's intro email on this
archive touched on that (& I think you replied). Ideally, we would be able
to have an environment where we can view the OSM H map for a particular
year, along with any historic maps from that area (from Topomancy or other
providers)? We may also want to be able to tag multiple sources for a
single way or node (this map and that map) so that sources could be
investigated.

So, we clearly have some interesting data modeling (& tagging) challenges
ahead of us.

I believe that the tagging of the start date of much of what is already in
OSM is a great question (esp. as I would expect that the current world
reflects a lot of information about the state of the historic world). We
may want to revisit the topic of data imports for OSM-H as to whether we
should view it differently (more friendly?) than the rest of the OSM
community.



On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Lester Caine <lester at lsces.co.uk> wrote:

> Jeff Meyer wrote:
>
>> Not sure if OSM Historic is the right name, but it seems fairly
>> descriptive and
>> benign.
>>
>
> There are - I think - two 'camps'?
> Those who want simply to see the development of the current data over
> time. Something that is currently being managed via the change note history.
>
> And the 'camp' I am hoping we are discussing, where it should be possible
> to set a 'date' and view the one the ground situation on that date?
>
> I suppose there is a third element, working with scanned historic maps,
> but that is something we already have access to behind the main map. But
> it's tagging the start date of objects on the MAIN map based on this
> historic data that is the currently contentious problem?
>
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