[OHM] date formats (was Re: Hidden Geo of NY's Gay Nightlife)

[Jeff Meyer]

Anyone from LoC, IMLS, or NYPL have any thoughts here?
(at least for the format topic...)

http://www.loc.gov/standards/datetime/

- Jeff


On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 1:59 PM, Richard Welty <rwelty at averillpark.net>
wrote:

>  On 4/29/15 3:08 PM, Richard Welty wrote:
>
> On 4/29/15 2:39 PM, Jeff Meyer wrote:
>
>  - Dates
>   -- Handling approximate date ranges
>
>   we need to do this anyway, there are lots of cases where we
> need to deal with this.
>
> following myself up, which some people tell me is bad form...
>
> my work on track documentation suggests a need for more than
> just start_date and end_date; tracks drift in and out of operation
> over time and end up with multiple start/stop dates. on top of
> that, there are tracks that were clay then paved or paved then
> clay, and in one supremely novel case, there is an inactive
> track not far from where i live that had pavement in the corners
> and clay on the straights for its first year of operation (not enough
> money to pay for pavement all the way around.)
>
> right now i don't really know how to model something like that
> in OSM terms.
>
> richard
>
> -- rwelty at averillpark.net
>  Averill Park Networking - GIS & IT Consulting
>  OpenStreetMap - PostgreSQL - Linux
>  Java - Web Applications - Search
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Historic mailing list
> Historic at openstreetmap.org
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/historic
>
>


-- 
Jeff Meyer
Global World History Atlas
www.gwhat.org
jeff at gwhat.org
206-676-2347

OpenStreetMap: Mapping with a Human Touch
osm: Open Historical Map (OHM)
<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Historical_Map> / my OSM user page
<http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/jeffmeyer>
t: @GWHAThistory <https://twitter.com/GWHAThistory> / @OpenHistMap
f: GWHAThistory <https://www.facebook.com/GWHAThistory>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/historic/attachments/20150429/83bf7e02/attachment.html>