[OHM] Historic places versus confidence

Rob Warren warren at muninn-project.org
Mon Mar 4 20:07:09 UTC 2013


I'd like to get it to that point, especially in recording the changes  
in the spatial objects over time.

The other issue is that while a contributor might add the border of  
the Kingdom of Prussia and another the border of the Free State of  
Prussia, the ways that are common to both objects will eventually need  
to be merged. This is going to require some creativity, but it is  
doable. I also suspect that eventually we'll have a few different  
'application websites' that use the OHM back-end for storage but  
render application specific timelines only.

I'd suggest we start by putting in some data and we'll build the tools  
as we go along.

rhw


On 28-Feb-13, at 9:11 PM, historic-request at openstreetmap.org wrote:

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> Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:52:27 -0600
> From: Ed Dykhuizen <eddykhuizen at gmail.com>
> To: Burrito Justice <burritojustice at oram.com>
> Cc: "historic at openstreetmap.org" <historic at openstreetmap.org>, Joseph
> 	Pettigrew <pettigrj at hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [OHM] [Historic] Historic Digest, Vol 7, Issue 9
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> Hi all,
>
> I don't know if I should be counted towards any quorum of any kind  
> -- I'm
> not a developer, just someone interested in this topic and very  
> happy to
> see it being pursued. Specifically, I had an idea a while ago about
> creating political maps for each year throughout history. So you  
> could look
> at a political map of Europe around 343 BC and then move a dial  
> towards the
> same area around 323 BC and see how the political map changed as  
> Alexander
> the Great went on his conquerin' spree. I'm a big history fan, and  
> more of
> a visual learner, so something like this would really help me  
> solidify a
> lot of world history.
>
> Granted, creating political maps for every year in history is a  
> Herculean
> task. So I was hoping someone could develop an interface that would  
> allow
> non-tech-savvy people like myself to make such changes. You know,  
> something
> where I could go to the map of 343 BC and draw and then manipulate a
> boundary like you do in Photoshop. Maybe I could then put in some
> placemarks for specific events that then link to Wikipedia articles  
> about
> them. Then when I'm done I could hit upload and see the changes on a  
> master
> set of maps that anyone can work on. If it were that easy you could  
> maybe
> get a lot of history buffs to do the work for free, a la Wikipedia.
> Teachers in particular might be interested because the end product  
> could
> really help in teaching history.
>
> I've been reading the emails to try to figure out if something like  
> this is
> in the works, but I admit, there's so much that's over my head that  
> I just
> get lost. Does any of what I'm describing sound like anyone's plans?
>
> Thanks so much for reading this,
>
> Ed Dykhuizen
>
> (And I'm including my friend Joe on this -- hope you don't mind!)




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