[Historic] "HOSM" or "OHM"?

[Shekhar Krishnan]

Hi.

I wanted to discuss the use of the acronym "HOSM".

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.

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
openhistoricalmap.net/.org.

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.

Thoughts?

Best,

S.K.
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Shekhar Krishnan
Topomancy LLC

http://shekhar.cc
http://topomancy.com
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