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

[Steve Bennett]

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Ian Sergeant <inas66+osm at gmail.com> wrote:
> We know from the interest in historic maps, photos, etc, that this
> stuff is can be interesting.  If I was crossing the path of
> significant explorer, I'd like to stop and look around.   However the
> current framework doesn't cut it.   Capturing this historical
> information is probably a couple of complete new schemas.

Yeah, I think there really needs to be some kind of proper layering
system in place to cope with historical information, and other
intangible data like names. Similarly, something to deal with
information that lacks a single central authority.

Steve