[Talk-GB] Mapping Archaeology

[lester at lsces.co.uk]

Obviously the location of  the site can be identified, and any excavations recorded. These are current facts. But I keep watching Time Team and thinking that all of the material they gather would make a good base for an historic view of the UK. Not sure where we are with the servers for the historic map, but in a lot of places the historic view breaks through into the current data! So the idea that this material is stored in the same database is in so many cases sensible? There is considerably less data that is totally lost to redevelopment against that which is now being preserved below that development? Being able to view what is actually recorded below that development would be an excellent next step? 

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From: Brian Savidge <a_snail at hotmail.com>
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Sent: Sat, 31 Aug 2013 7:14
Subject: [Talk-GB] Mapping Archaeology

Hi
A friend of mine belongs to a local Archaeology group and they are going to do some surveying shortly using a variety of methods including ground penetrating radar.  I thought it would be nice if somehow the results get put onto Open Street Map.  
 
Are buried walls and landscape features suitable for recording on Open Street Map perhaps at level -1?  I have a feeling I saw something a while ago about a parallel open streetmap that was intended for archaeology and recording things that are no longer visible, but I have lost the link and can't find any references to the site.
 
Any thoughts on the matter?
 
 
 
 
 
 		 	   		  
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