[OHM] Historic Digest, Vol 7, Issue 10

[Ed Dykhuizen]

Wonderful! I'm very happy to hear that. I'll be lurking and looking for
ways I might be able to contribute. I worked as a writer for many years, as
a copywriter and at a news station, and now I'm in online marketing. And my
friend Joe is a lawyer. So maybe we will be able to contribute down the
road, when you need to do some promotion, and also when you need to file
frivolous lawsuits. (Joke.)

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 6:37 PM, Brad Thompson <brad at pastmapper.com> wrote:

> 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
>
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