[Talk-us] Civil War sites

[Steven Johnson]

So, Steve - when you made your initial query, did you have something in
mind?

There are scads of sites scattered throughout the Mid-Atlantic area and, as
you can see, a number of us with both interest and experience with mapping
historical sites. If we can bring our resources to bear (I'm thinking
MappingDC...) I think it could be a really awesome project.

Cheers,

-- SEJ

t: @geomantic
s: sejohnson8
"A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely
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On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 17:09, Richard Welty <rwelty at averillpark.net> wrote:

>  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>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> 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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