[OHM] Advice on modelling historical boundaries & where to keep them?

[Susanna Ånäs]

Here are a couple of interesting projects I have come up with recently:

Humphrey Southall has made an effort to test using Wikidata as a backend
gazetteer for the PastPlace project. See this intro for example
http://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/From_Wikidata_to_a_global_historical_gazetteer:_Pelagios_and_PastPlace

Bert Spaan from the Waag Society was presenting the Dutch historical
geocoder project http://erfgoedenlocatie.nl/ (among other things) at the
recent Wiki Loves Maps seminar in Helsinki
http://wikilovesmaps.wikimedia.fi/.

I have copied both to notify of the discussion and invite to join.

Susanna

2015-02-18 16:33 GMT+02:00 Tim Waters <chippy2005 at gmail.com>:

> Interesting, do you know if the need was for present day geocoding where
> the region exists in the mind of the locals, and where they refer to the
> non existent place as if it still existed, so a search for the town in the
> region now could well be expected to work or if it was primarily a historic
> search, where everyone in the area doesn't use the name anymore, but where
> a search was to show something that used to exist?
>
> On 18 February 2015 at 11:13, Pieren <pieren3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> FYI, I removed this week an historical boundary recently created in
>> France:
>>
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/4568925/history
>>
>> The intend of this contributor was clearly to find an existing town
>> into its older region using the default OSM name finder (he was
>> involved in a forum discussion) where nominatim could, for instance,
>> sort the results by dates. Of course, tags like
>> "type=boundary:1790-1972" or "admin_level:1790-1972=2" are not
>> recognized by nominatim.
>> I also forwarded this contributor to OHM explaining that OSM is not
>> intended to support historical boundaries. But the demand exists.
>>
>> Pieren
>>
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