[Historic] "HOSM" or "OHM"?

[Jeff Meyer]

A couple other thoughts... I do think there's some value in having the name
"OSM" as part of the name. It credits the source of our platform and aligns
us with a large base of existing users and tools. There's a grant proposal
in to use HOSM/OHM as a foundation for some work here in the US (more on
this later, hopefully with some positive news...). The proposal has
received some positive feedback, in part, I believe, due to the OSM
connection. That said, OHM is certainly more broad-reaching sounding and
may free us to communicate other concepts.

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 12:58 AM, Jeff Meyer <jeff at gwhat.org> wrote:

> 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.
>> --
>>
>> Shekhar Krishnan
>> Topomancy LLC
>>
>> http://shekhar.cc
>> http://topomancy.com
>>
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