[OHM] Historic Digest, Vol 7, Issue 10

[Brad Thompson]

Hi Ed --

Welcome to the group! Yes, you're definitely thinking along the same
lines as many of us here. The possibility of crowdsourcing the
'filling in' of map data throughout history is one of the reasons that
OSM is so appealing as a platform. Much of the technical talk that's
underway right now is related to making the necessary changes to the
basic framework of OSM, which is already great for spatial data, to
make it a viable place to store, edit, and work with data that is both
spatial *and* temporal.

Personally, I think it's great to hear you articulate so many of the
use cases that have been discussed, both online and off, within this
group (contributing data, adding tags, crosslinking with Wikipedia,
etc). It's reassuring to hear that yet another person would find such
a platform interesting and useful.

A side note -- Dan Vanderkam (Dan, you're on here, right?) had a great
demo a few months back that doesn't appear to be online anymore that
displayed SVGs of country borders over time, with a slider running
from ancient times through present day. It was very similar to what
you described, albeit in a standalone demo format.

-Brad