A couple other thoughts... I do think there's some value in having the name "OSM" as part of the name. It credits the source of our platform and aligns us with a large base of existing users and tools. There's a grant proposal in to use HOSM/OHM as a foundation for some work here in the US (more on this later, hopefully with some positive news...). The proposal has received some positive feedback, in part, I believe, due to the OSM connection. That said, OHM is certainly more broad-reaching sounding and may free us to communicate other concepts.
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 12:58 AM, Jeff Meyer <[email protected]> wrote: > Shekhar - > > These are good suggestions - we have already moved to the term > "Historical." > See: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Historical_OSM. We just haven't > bothered to change the list name. > > We also had a discussion on Historical OSM vs OSM Historical, but didn't > really consider Open Historical Map at the time - see the latest email on > subject here: > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/historic/2012-October/000060.html > > That said, I don't think there's much of an investment & we could change > easily. > > Thanks, Jeff > > On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 12:49 AM, Shekhar Krishnan > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi. >> >> I wanted to discuss the use of the acronym "HOSM". >> >> It seems to me it sounds way too similar to the Humanitarian >> OpenStreetMap team, which is very well-established and recognised in the >> community. We should not confuse identities. >> >> I would prefer if we used "OHM" as in Open Historical Map, similar to >> projects like OpenCycleMap, etc. We have also registered this as the domain >> openhistoricalmap.net/.org. >> >> Also as a historian we rarely use the adjective "historic" and prefer the >> term "historical". Since the list and tag-line is already this I don't >> mind, but "HOSM" is not distinct enough. >> >> Thoughts? >> >> Best, >> >> S.K. >> -- >> >> Shekhar Krishnan >> Topomancy LLC >> >> http://shekhar.cc >> http://topomancy.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Historic mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/historic >> >> > > > -- > Jeff Meyer > Global World History Atlas > www.gwhat.org > [email protected] > 206-676-2347 > <http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/jeffmeyer> osm: Historical > OSM<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Historical_OSM> > / my OSM user page <http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/jeffmeyer> > t: @GWHAThistory <https://twitter.com/GWHAThistory> > f: GWHAThistory <https://www.facebook.com/GWHAThistory> > > > > -- Jeff Meyer Global World History Atlas www.gwhat.org [email protected] 206-676-2347 <http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/jeffmeyer> osm: Historical OSM<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Historical_OSM> / my OSM user page <http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/jeffmeyer> t: @GWHAThistory <https://twitter.com/GWHAThistory> f: GWHAThistory <https://www.facebook.com/GWHAThistory>
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