[Talk-GB] BBC article on volunteers mapping hillforts

[Lester Caine]

Adam Hoyle wrote:
> On 8 Jul 2013, at 11:31, Lester Caine<lester at lsces.co.uk>  wrote:
>
>> >Adam Hoyle wrote:
>>> >>This would be awesome information to have in OSM, but as it is historic
>>> >>information, sometimes with no obvious above ground visualisation, is it
>>> >>definitely appropriate for the project? (Personally I hope it is, but wanted to
>>> >>see what the consensus is).
>> >
>> >OHM has been set up exactly to support this type of data;)
>> >But it looks a little empty at presnet:(
>> >http://www.openhistoricalmap.org/
> Wow, I didn't realise such a thing existed - looks potentially rather awesome, although I agree it is slightly empty right now.
>
> What's the background / roadmap / plan with it? Is it 'owned' by OSM, or an offshoot?

http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/historic is the discussion list, and 
it's a work in progress ... needs a bit more support to get the rules laid down 
and one of the things still to be resolved is how to link between current data 
which may have 'start_date' relevant to a search, and data which has expired 
from the current map ...

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