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

80n 80n80n at gmail.com
Tue Jul 24 09:42:04 BST 2007


NSW Department of Land Municipality Maps 1917

On 7/24/07, Franc Carter <franc.carter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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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