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

[Mark Goodge]

On 20/09/2018 18:16, Lester Caine wrote:
> 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 ...

Then get involved and put it in OHM.

Mark