[OHM] Connecting building histories with OSM

[Lester Caine]

On 31/08/14 07:16, Susanna Ånäs wrote:
> The promise of the Wikimaps/OHM project is to connect geographical
> features to knowledge about them in Wikimedia. But as the scope of
> knowledge in WIkimedia is limited by practices of notability and
> limiting original research, one would have to come up with a proposal to
> solve that.

At the current time there are two ways of looking at this. One is that
there is nowhere that forms a natural home for this sort of material. In
reality however there are actually probably too many places that this
can be developed using.

The ideal situation for OHM would be that the various phases of building
appear as buildings are built adapted and extended. Each of those phases
of development would ideally link to a more in depth description of the
change, but that content is not really suitable for OHM itself, and as
Susanna has pointed out, it's inclusion in some of the archives like
wikidata, wikipedia and so on requires a level of 'notability' To my
mind if material has been well researched and cross references other
sources it is notable, but that view is not well supported :(

'Facebook' is another pet hate, but the timeline facility does allow
places to be described and histories recorded. Not ideal, but provides
access to related material and can link to the timelines of the current
residents :)

You mentioned Amazon ... http://www.lulu.com is another route to perhaps
recover a little of the costs that can be involved with in depth
research. There are many other similar publishing sites .

Personally I find maintaining my own material on my own websites gives
me a bit more control, and I can then link to OSM and the like as
required. http://phpgedview.lsces.org.uk/ for example, and at SOME point
in the future that will use OSM as its base for Place Hierarchy.
Anything 'notable' would then be tagged on OSM/OHM with a simple url
link ... but it is reliant on others taking up the mantle and
maintaining the sites in the future :(

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