[Historic] "HOSM" or "OHM"?

[Jeff Meyer]

Shekhar -

These are good suggestions - we have already moved to the term "Historical."
See: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Historical_OSM. We just haven't
bothered to change the list name.

We also had a discussion on Historical OSM vs OSM Historical, but didn't
really consider Open Historical Map at the time - see the latest email on
subject here:
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/historic/2012-October/000060.html

That said, I don't think there's much of an investment & we could change
easily.

Thanks, Jeff

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 12:49 AM, Shekhar Krishnan <shekhar at topomancy.com>wrote:

> 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
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