[Talk-GB] Tagging Historic Features

[Graham Jones]

I have been pondering this issue myself and have thought using a
> combination of historic:era (Mesolithic | Neolithic | Bronze | Iron |
> Roman | Saxon | Norman | Middle Ages | ...) for objects with era based
> timing and/or more date specific where appropriate.


I have had a first go at putting together a scheme on a wiki page (
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Historic_Britain), along with
a 'todo' list of things that will need to happen for this to take off (in
particular I think we will need some tools to make it easy to add extra
information).

I would welcome thoughts on the proposed tagging scheme, because in doing it
I realised how shaky some of my knowledge of UK history is.....

Another area that has been murdering grey-matter is change of function,
> for example a Saxon Monastery, built say 6th Century, swallowed by
> Glastonbury Abbey 11th Century, became a Manor in the dissolution
> then a hospital/convalescence home for WW1, Military headquarters in
> WW2, a hotel in the 1960s and now luxury apartments.
>
> I think if this is the case we should use multiple values for the
civilization/period/era tags, with a suitable separator (comma would do me),
then we can just select for any tag containing 'roman' and put it in the
roman map.

>
> I would definitely be interested in such a map, I would even be happy
> to contribute my time to it's development
>
> Excellent! - Please feel free to have a go at the wiki page I have started
- once we are heading to convergence on what should be done, we can go
through the todo list to see who would like to do what!

Regards


Graham.

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Graham Jones
Hartlepool, UK.
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