[Talk-us] Fictional / Old locations (was: User HomocideBaltimore)

Brian Egge brianegge at gmail.com
Sun Sep 13 01:11:07 UTC 2015


Maybe what you are looking for is http://www.openhistoricalmap.org/ . It is
"an effort to use the OSM infrastructure as a foundation for creating the
world's most universal, detailed, and out-of-date map."

On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 6:05 PM Ray Kiddy <ray at ganymede.org> wrote:

>
> Good to know about the opengeofiction site. I have wondered what to do,
> for example, with a school in Sunnyvale CA that closed 20+ years ago. I
> think it is still on the OSM map.
>
> It seems there could be a way to mark a location with "x was here" but
> that could become a huge mess....
>
> Have others had ideas, not on fictional sites, but on actual sites that
> existed in the past? I know there are "historically re-created maps". I
> seem to recall a map of ancient Rome as it was then. But anything with
> OSM data?
>
> cheers - ray
>
>
> On
> Fri, 11 Sep 2015 23:30:48 +0200 Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 09/11/2015 11:14 PM, Luis Villa wrote:
> > > Agreed that clearly these edits need to be reverted and the account
> > > probably blocked, but just curious: is there no alternate service
> > > (akin to the historical maps project) for this person to play in?
> >
> > There's opengeofiction.net which uses OSM software to drive it, but
> > allows you to create your own fictional (part of) the map. Of course
> > basic communication skills are a plus even there. And they don't have
> > aerial imagery (unless they've turned their fiction level to eleven
> > since I last looked).
> >
> > Bye
> > Frederik
> >
>
>
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