[Historic] Dating features (was: Introduction & questions)

[Rob Warren]

Richard,

nice to talk to you again, we previously met at the OSM Hack weekend  
in Toronto last year.

There have been some previous discussions on the mailing list about  
this topic that should probably be added to the wiki. I also have an  
interest in modelling troop movement, through how to do this would  
breaking the rails databases is problematic. ...there is also the  
question of whether we wish to link to 'current' features within OSM  
proper.

I'm currently fighting with renderd - I'd like to be able to add date  
ranges to tile requests so that only items within that time range are  
rendered on the map. I'm trying to decide between a scheme where the  
date range is encoded directly into the URL or within a parameter of  
the URL request. Any preferences?

best,
rhw
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> Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 14:11:21 -0500
> From: Richard Welty <rwelty at averillpark.net>
> To: historic at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: [Historic] introduction & questions
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> 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