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
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