Re: [Talk-GB] BBC article on volunteers mapping hillforts
On 07/08/2013 01:00 PM, Adam Hoyle wrote: On 8 Jul 2013, at 11:31, Lester Caine wrote: Adam Hoyle wrote: This would be awesome information to have in OSM, but as it is historic information, sometimes with no obvious above ground visualisation, is it definitely appropriate for the project? (Personally I hope it is, but wanted to see what the consensus is). OHM has been set up exactly to support this type of data ;) But it looks a little empty at presnet :( http://www.openhistoricalmap.org/ Wow, I didn't realise such a thing existed - looks potentially rather awesome, although I agree it is slightly empty right now. What's the background / roadmap / plan with it? Is it 'owned' by OSM, or an offshoot? Best, Adam ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb I believe that a lot of volunteers in this area work with their local Historical Environment Record (HER - usually maintained by Local Authority) which is generally maintained as a database with added GIS links (increasingly well integrated). An initially minimal set of the data from these HERs is being nationally made available via the national Heritage Gateway website (http://www.heritagegateway.org.uk). An example of the sort of result you can get through searching this site for "hillfort" is here : http://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=1002662&resourceID=5. Not sure if OSM volunteers really want to duplicate this effort, but it may be possible to obtain some of the mapping data from those who have compiled it for the HERs? Bogus ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] BBC article on volunteers mapping hillforts
Adam Hoyle wrote: On 8 Jul 2013, at 11:31, Lester Caine wrote: >Adam Hoyle wrote: >>This would be awesome information to have in OSM, but as it is historic >>information, sometimes with no obvious above ground visualisation, is it >>definitely appropriate for the project? (Personally I hope it is, but wanted to >>see what the consensus is). > >OHM has been set up exactly to support this type of data;) >But it looks a little empty at presnet:( >http://www.openhistoricalmap.org/ Wow, I didn't realise such a thing existed - looks potentially rather awesome, although I agree it is slightly empty right now. What's the background / roadmap / plan with it? Is it 'owned' by OSM, or an offshoot? http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/historic is the discussion list, and it's a work in progress ... needs a bit more support to get the rules laid down and one of the things still to be resolved is how to link between current data which may have 'start_date' relevant to a search, and data which has expired from the current map ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] BBC article on volunteers mapping hillforts
On 8 Jul 2013, at 11:31, Lester Caine wrote: > Adam Hoyle wrote: >> This would be awesome information to have in OSM, but as it is historic >> information, sometimes with no obvious above ground visualisation, is it >> definitely appropriate for the project? (Personally I hope it is, but wanted >> to >> see what the consensus is). > > OHM has been set up exactly to support this type of data ;) > But it looks a little empty at presnet :( > http://www.openhistoricalmap.org/ Wow, I didn't realise such a thing existed - looks potentially rather awesome, although I agree it is slightly empty right now. What's the background / roadmap / plan with it? Is it 'owned' by OSM, or an offshoot? Best, Adam ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] BBC article on volunteers mapping hillforts
Adam Hoyle wrote: This would be awesome information to have in OSM, but as it is historic information, sometimes with no obvious above ground visualisation, is it definitely appropriate for the project? (Personally I hope it is, but wanted to see what the consensus is). OHM has been set up exactly to support this type of data ;) But it looks a little empty at presnet :( http://www.openhistoricalmap.org/ -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] BBC article on volunteers mapping hillforts
John, This would be awesome information to have in OSM, but as it is historic information, sometimes with no obvious above ground visualisation, is it definitely appropriate for the project? (Personally I hope it is, but wanted to see what the consensus is). There are existing sites such as http://www.themodernantiquarian.com and http://www.megalithic.co.uk/ which contain a lot of information on such things but as far as I know they lack a map feature - seems to me that OSM would be perfect if it's deemed appropriate by the community There is a list of the people involved here: http://www.arch.ox.ac.uk/hillforts-atlas-team.html anyone on here already know any of them already? Best, Adam On 8 Jul 2013, at 10:53, John Sturdy wrote: > No mention of OSM that I can see, though; a different kind of "mapping": > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-23203500 > > http://www.arch.ox.ac.uk/hillforts-atlas.html > > > __John > > ___ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
[Talk-GB] BBC article on volunteers mapping hillforts
No mention of OSM that I can see, though; a different kind of "mapping": http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-23203500 http://www.arch.ox.ac.uk/hillforts-atlas.html __John ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
