[OHM] Wikimaps reporting

[Tim Alder]

Am 30.05.2013 16:08, schrieb Lester Caine:
> Having had many run-ins with wikipedia over the years, I will not be
> contributing any more to THAT side of things. Please do not make OHM
> dependent on anything to do with wikipedia ... it will be a reason for
> many of us to walk away ...
>
> OSM has a good range of tools that will allow historic mapping to grow,
> but what is missing is something we have been asking for some time, the
> ability to overlay secondary data layers onto the main OSM map. Not
> something that wikipedia can help with.
>
Hello,
I hope it's a kind of misunderstanding. There is nothing inside Wikimaps 
that could be a show-stopper for OHM.

  We want to scan and publish historical maps at Commons. If we are 
successful with the georeferencing process, theses maps could be as a 
side-effect included in an OSM-editor as base for OHM. If not, an other 
project can fill this piece of the project. (But remember with Commons 
we have an media archive and a community to handle over 17 million 
images that's something what OSM not have. What we also have is a 
relative good contact to libraries and museums.)

In the second step we will perhaps discuss like everybody else about the 
best way to vectorize stuff, but we will not dictate anything. If we 
have not better ideas, perhaps we also only following the process of OHM.

In the third step we want to use OHM-data like we do this with OSM-data 
since 2009 at toolserver and we want to bring it to Wikipedia in similar 
way like the WIWOSM project or in other ways. I can't see how this 
should be a problem for OHM.

But what I see is that we can bring lot's of historian to the project 
because we have inside Wikipedia thousands historical article’s that 
waiting for better maps.

I hope this is an acceptable way for a cooperation.

Greetings Tim alias Kolossos