[Talk-GB] BBC article on volunteers mapping hillforts

[Bogus Zaba]

On 07/08/2013 01:00 PM, 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?
>
> Best,
>
> Adam
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I believe that a lot of volunteers in this area work with their local 
Historical Environment Record (HER - usually maintained by Local 
Authority) which is generally maintained as a database with added GIS 
links (increasingly well integrated). An initially minimal set of the 
data from these HERs is being nationally made available via the national 
Heritage Gateway website (http://www.heritagegateway.org.uk). An example 
of the sort of result you can get through searching this site for 
"hillfort" is here :
http://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=1002662&resourceID=5.

Not sure if OSM volunteers really want to duplicate this effort, but it 
may be possible to obtain some of the mapping data from those who have 
compiled it for the HERs?

Bogus