Anyone from LoC, IMLS, or NYPL have any thoughts here? (at least for the format topic...)
http://www.loc.gov/standards/datetime/ - Jeff On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 1:59 PM, Richard Welty <[email protected]> wrote: > On 4/29/15 3:08 PM, Richard Welty wrote: > > On 4/29/15 2:39 PM, Jeff Meyer wrote: > > - Dates > -- Handling approximate date ranges > > we need to do this anyway, there are lots of cases where we > need to deal with this. > > following myself up, which some people tell me is bad form... > > my work on track documentation suggests a need for more than > just start_date and end_date; tracks drift in and out of operation > over time and end up with multiple start/stop dates. on top of > that, there are tracks that were clay then paved or paved then > clay, and in one supremely novel case, there is an inactive > track not far from where i live that had pavement in the corners > and clay on the straights for its first year of operation (not enough > money to pay for pavement all the way around.) > > right now i don't really know how to model something like that > in OSM terms. > > richard > > -- [email protected] > Averill Park Networking - GIS & IT Consulting > OpenStreetMap - PostgreSQL - Linux > Java - Web Applications - Search > > > _______________________________________________ > Historic mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/historic > > -- Jeff Meyer Global World History Atlas www.gwhat.org [email protected] 206-676-2347 OpenStreetMap: Mapping with a Human Touch osm: Open Historical Map (OHM) <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Historical_Map> / my OSM user page <http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/jeffmeyer> t: @GWHAThistory <https://twitter.com/GWHAThistory> / @OpenHistMap f: GWHAThistory <https://www.facebook.com/GWHAThistory>
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