[OHM] Possibility to build a new Historic Project to OSM

[Richard Welty]

On 8/7/17 8:20 AM, Tim Waters wrote:
> Hi Rodrigo,
>
> Speaking of OpenHistoricalMap I think historic events bound to
> geography would be welcome. The Historic Event proposal was for the
> different but of course bigger OSM project.The example given in the
> wiki page was historic battlefields which would be suitable.
i have an ongoing interest in doing a battlefield project. i think we need
to think about what kind of framework we need to describe events, what
it should include and what it can omit. we probably want to develop use
cases so that we can think about how the pieces should go together.

> I think there could be discussion about notability. For example, if a
> city records and notifies that an event occured in a place (e.g. Blue
> Plaques) then we can say it's notable for sure. At any rate the event
> should be able to be verified by another mapper.
we also should probably have a discussion about documentation standards,
recognizing that not all historical events have detailed documentation. i
can find extensive documentation for many battles of the American Civil
War. the documentation for most of the battles of the Revolutionary War
is much thinner.

richard

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