The topotime might be useful to look at as they are trying to get into messiness of historical temporal info http://kgeographer.com/wp/topotime-and-place/
- typed with one thumb. > On Apr 29, 2015, at 5:11 PM, Jeff Meyer <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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) / my OSM user page > t: @GWHAThistory / @OpenHistMap > f: GWHAThistory > > > > _______________________________________________ > Historic mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/historic
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