Hi Ed -- Welcome to the group! Yes, you're definitely thinking along the same lines as many of us here. The possibility of crowdsourcing the 'filling in' of map data throughout history is one of the reasons that OSM is so appealing as a platform. Much of the technical talk that's underway right now is related to making the necessary changes to the basic framework of OSM, which is already great for spatial data, to make it a viable place to store, edit, and work with data that is both spatial *and* temporal.
Personally, I think it's great to hear you articulate so many of the use cases that have been discussed, both online and off, within this group (contributing data, adding tags, crosslinking with Wikipedia, etc). It's reassuring to hear that yet another person would find such a platform interesting and useful. A side note -- Dan Vanderkam (Dan, you're on here, right?) had a great demo a few months back that doesn't appear to be online anymore that displayed SVGs of country borders over time, with a slider running from ancient times through present day. It was very similar to what you described, albeit in a standalone demo format. -Brad _______________________________________________ Historic mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/historic
