[OHM] One-place studies

[Peter Cooper]

One-place studies (OPS) are a branch of family history with a focus on the entire population of a single village or community, not just a single, geographically dispersed family line (per Wikipedia). There are two main websites about OPS (oneplacestudy.org and one-place-studies.org), and several hundred people involved. There are of course also many others who do something similar even if they do not call it a "one-place study".

As a "one-placer" I am researching how we should do mapping, both for myself and others. As part of this I am creating a forum for one-placers to discuss our needs and desires, as well as to share how we might go forward. Although I personally have 50 years of using computers, most of us are not very technical, being more interested in history and genealogy.

We are also very diverse and tackle our studies in many different ways. Some example use of maps on our websites are: brattonclovellyops.com/wp/?page_id=3384, evesham-mapped.org.uk, springhillhistory.org.uk/page20, and hcnhistory.org.uk/old-maps. Few if any of us have mapping expertise.

Our new forum currently comprises mainly just my own musings in order to give it structure, and we are only now going to invite other one-placers to contribute their views.  However I hope that in a few months time we will have a better view of what we all want (rather than just what I want), so we will be in a better position to have an informed discussion with people with mapping expertise.

My natural inclination is towards open source/ open data so I was excited when I found OHM.  However I am unclear about its viability and future (the longer term plan at wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OHM/Plan is about 2013, I do not see any time-slider on the map itself, and I cannot see any postings to the mailing list in 2016). If it has a promising future I would like to have a fairly in-depth discussion at some point about how what you are doing might tie in with what we want to do.

My question now is how to have that in-depth conversation with the OHM community. 

Thanks
Peter Cooper
www.hcnhistory.org.uk
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