[OHM] Is OpenHistoricalMap officially part of OSM Foundation?

[Rob Warren]

Rob,

right now Open Historical Map is ... owned by the community and not officially part of the OSM foundation. The machine is supported by Topomancy LLC, some out of pocket expenses have been paid by myself and Jeff Meyer, occasional hacking is done by Mikel Maron and others (who I hope will forgive me if my memory fails now). We are nowhere as organized as we should be, but resources are what they are. 

One of the ongoing problems of running something as big as OSM (and wikipedia) is that everyone has an idea about how things should work. The lively discussion and standards 'set' in the OSM community don't always make sense in OHM - take the drama over mapping military installations for example. This is why we run our own database to avoid conflicts with the main OSM database. This isn't an OHM specific issue, Open Sea Map is having similar issues with its bathymetry data. 

So, I don't see OHM as a 'second class citizen' as much as being in a different class all-together. Certainly, our rendering is nowhere near as good as OSM and it still needs work, but we did manage to get a presentation at SOTM this year. If closer cooperation with mainline OSM is possible, all the better!

rhw

> Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2013 12:18:38 +0000
> From: Rob Nickerson <rob.j.nickerson at gmail.com>
> Subject: [OHM] Is OpenHistoricalMap officially part of OSM Foundation?
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Following on from my attempt to get new background layers added to the map
> editors, Paul Norman has decided to split the imagery list into two
> (current and historic) and is proposing removing historic layers to the
> historic list - which basically means they will not appear as default
> options in ID, JOSM etc..
> 
> I have set out my reasons why I think this is a bad ideas here:
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2013-November/015482.html
> 
> I guess my question is "Who owns Open Historical Map"? Is it part of
> OpenStreetMap, and if not, can we make it part of OpenStreetMap (i.e hand
> over to the OSM Foundation) so that it is no longer treated as a second
> class citizen?
> 
> Best regards,
> Rob