On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Rob Nickerson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yes, the maps in question are hostoric, but they may still contain usefull > info. For example, names of topographical features that don't have signs on > the ground. About this, I just wanted to say that in France, we use instensively the land registry (cadastre) to add places, topological, fields, farms or localities names which are not signed on the ground. We do that since years ... with JOSM ;-) We see the online editors as an entry point in OSM or only good enough for small contributions. Once people are familiar with the projet and want to use more various sources, we always strongly recommend to switch to the java editor. I guess that the use of your historical maps could follow the same way. I just have one concern about historical maps : it is hard to distinguish what is still valid for today and what is obsolete. Some contributors will not take care and add much more than what is real at present time. Such sources need special warnings. Pieren _______________________________________________ Historic mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/historic
