[Talk-us] Civil War sites
Richard Welty
rwelty at averillpark.net
Tue Mar 8 22:09:23 GMT 2011
historical mapping can be hard. i have the resources to do a bunch of it for
the Civil War, but the tagging system doesn't support a lot of the data and
it would just make a mess of the map, i think, right now.
but there are cases where we could tag historic road names where they differ
in a significant way from current names without too much trouble. this
wouldn't
add clutter.
On 3/8/11 5:05 PM, Steven Johnson wrote:
> FWIW, when we mapped at Manassas, we mapped what's on the ground now.
> Not to say there couldn't be other approaches, but we didn't really
> have a plan in hand to do historical mapping.
>
> -- SEJ
> t: @geomantic
> s: sejohnson8
> "A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting
> entirely of jokes." -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 16:40, Richard Welty <rwelty at averillpark.net
> <mailto:rwelty at averillpark.net>> wrote:
>
> definitely. i've done some mapping of the Antietam Battlefield Park,
> and would love to do more.
>
> how do you (SteveC) envision this? there are numerous things that
> can be
> mapped, but some would seem pretty unreasonable to attempt in OSM
> as it is now (e.g., showing all the unit locations during the day
> at Antietam
> as they appear on the 1908 Cope maps).
>
>
>
> On 3/8/11 3:39 PM, Steven Johnson wrote:
>> I would definitely be interested. We had a mapping party at
>> Manassas Battlefield last June, but there are so many other
>> battlefields within an easy drive of WashDC that need greater
>> visibility on the map. And now that the weather is moderating, it
>> would be a great time to do some historical mapping.
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 05:00, Steve Coast <steve at asklater.com
>> <mailto:steve at asklater.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> Anyone interested in mapping civil war sites, maybe with a
>> mapping party? I mention because the anniversaries are all
>> coming up.
>>
>
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