[talk-au] Australian Historical Maps (Was: Re: 'Break in' the list)

[Franc Carter]

I'm not sure what you mean with the source:name tag, what should the value
be there (i.e what's DOL 1917 in your example)

thanks

On 7/24/07, 80n <80n80n at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The general convention for source and source_ref, when they refer to the
> name tag is to use source:name and source_ref:name as the tags.
>
> So, you might have:
>
> highway=primary
> source=Yahoo!
> name=High Street
> source:name=DOL 1917
> source_ref:name=GPS:http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/online/maps.cfm
>
> In other words, qualify the source tag by suffixing it with the attribute
> it refers to.
>
> 80n
>
> On 7/24/07, Ian Sergeant <isergean at hih.com.au> wrote:
> >
> > I wrote:
> >
> > > ... you can find them online.
> > >
> > > Look here ->
> > >
> > > http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/online/maps.cfm
> > >
> > > There are some very detailed images, with every street meticulously
> > hand
> > > written across hand drawn maps of Sydney and Suburbs circa 1920.
> >
> > "Franc Carter" <franc.carter at gmail.com> wrote on 24/07/2007 12:26:04 PM
> > wrote:
> >
> > > What are you using to identify the names as coming from these maps,
> > I'll
> > use
> > > the same so that there is some conistency
> >
> > I have only used the source tag to refer to the source of the location
> > info, not the name.
> >
> > Oops.
> >
> > I should probably record the source of the name.  It seems to be an
> > evolving standard that when there are two values for a tag, they are
> > colon
> > separated.  So, I would suggest using
> >
> > source=survey:historical
> > source_ref=GPS:http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/online/maps.cfm
> >
> > for a GPS route, with historically defined names from the Sydney Metro
> > Detailed Survey stuff..
> >
> > But - I am open to any better suggestions.
> >
> > Ian.
> >
> >
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Franc
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