[OSM-talk] Request for Romano-British features

[Joseph Reeves]

Hi Mick,

There's plenty of resources out there that you should be able to gleam data
from. A short list, for example:

http://pleiades.stoa.org/home
http://www.ahds.ac.uk/archaeology/collections/index.htm
http://finds.org.uk/
https://googleancientplaces.wordpress.com/
http://mapdata.thehumanjourney.net/vgswandb_map.html
http://library.thehumanjourney.net/view/subjects/UK-Roman.html
http://www.wessexarch.co.uk/projects/period/roman

[Disclaimer, I'm responsible for one or two of those]

Some of these will give you data in formats you've asked for - plenty more
wont. Much of the data you want hasn't been recorded digitally, so you're
either going to have to start digitising yourself, or rely on the recent
work of others. There's a bit of an introduction to our Pottery Kilns of
Roman Britain map here:
http://mapdata.thehumanjourney.net/vgswandb_index.html In short, there was
a lot of manual work involved in that one.

The problem is going to be license issues. Not all archaeologists are as
eloquent with their licensing discussions as the OSM community is...

As Martin said, the key "start_date" might be interesting.

Cheers, Joseph




On 22 December 2011 07:53, mick <bareman at tpg.com.au> wrote:

> I am putting out a request for surveys of Romano-British features to
> include in my attempt to create a map of Roman era Britain.
>
> Suggested features:
> Roads & Bridges
> Camps, Stations & settlements
> Villas
> Cemeteries & Temples
> Town & City walls and Gates
>
> Ideally details would include feature name, feature type, period,
> submitter name, source, reliability.
>
> Preferred format is MapInfo, ESRI Shape file or osm xml, I know I can
> process these formats - other formats I would have to struggle with.
>
> I have already collected what I can recognise as roman from OSM and I'm
> after feature that are too ephemeral for inclusion in OSM, eg. excerpts
> from archaeological investigations etc.
>
> My goal is to make the results available in an online system, either
> OSM-like or QGIS server.
>
> thanks in advance
> mick
>
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