[Historic] introduction & questions

[Richard Welty]

i just joined; Jeff Meyers pointed me at the list after a brief exchange 
on talk-us

apparently some history oriented OSM projects i'm interested in doing 
match up pretty
closely with the goals of this project, and the strategy here looks very 
much like what i
thought would be necessary.

i'm (among other things) interested in entering time stamped troop 
movements from
American Civil War battles and campaigns, with the ultimate goal of 
producing
customizable animations showing the progress of events.

having said that, has there been any previous discussion about tagging? 
in particular,
things like having a standard tag prefix so that we have a somewhat 
independent
namespace, e.g. historic:foo or ohm:foo?

has there been any previous discussion about tagging historical events 
and places in
general?

thanks,
    richard