[Talk-GB] 'historic' county boundaries added to the database

Lester Caine lester at lsces.co.uk
Thu Sep 20 17:16:23 UTC 2018


On 20/09/2018 17:50, Mark Goodge wrote:
> In fact, putting them in OSM isn't just damaging to OSM, it's damaging 
> to OHM. At the moment, OHM is a bit sparse, there are some well-mapped 
> areas but there are some pretty big blank areas. What it really needs is 
> a group of enthusiastic contributors, who are knowledgeable about 
> history and want to see it mapped. Putting the historic counties into 
> OHM would be a huge boost for it, it would make OHM much more useful for 
> genealogists, fans of listed buildings, ancient monuments, old railways, 
> etc. And there are plenty of those. That in turn would drive more users 
> of OHM, and more contributors, thus helping to make it even more useful.

Until OHM has all of the current history available in parallel with 
'extra' data it's not worth spending any time on. I want to see where 
historic changes fit around the current state on the ground so I work 
off OSM ... and will until all that data is available in OHM ...

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