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

[Franc Carter]

;-)

thanks

On 7/24/07, 80n <80n80n at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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Franc
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