[talk-au] History (Was: Re: [OpenStreetMap] Re: Hume and Hovell route)

[Richard Weait]

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 8:17 PM, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:

[re: mapping historic objects that are no longer present]

> No question about it, the fourth dimension introduces a lot of
> complexities. Sadly, I don't have a lot of faith in the OSM community
> to come up with a sensible strategy for dealing with all the nuances.
> (There's a very strong tendency for people to quickly decide on some
> tags that solve their immediate problem, and not worry much about how
> those tags work for other people.)

There is a new list for those interested in historic mapping.  This
list is so new that so far there are no posts.

http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/historic

It is hoped that contributors to the historic@ list will have an
interest in historic mapping of some sort, will present interesting
use cases of historic mapping and will assist in solving some of the
perceived (and discovered) challenges of such mapping.