Re: [Talk-GB] Historical Mapping in OSM

2010-09-27 Thread Dave F.
On 26/09/2010 23:47, Richard Palmer wrote: Dear all, I'm involved in a project looking at the history of a street in London (The Strand). One of things we'd like to do is produce a 'animated' map showing the changes along it from the C18th onwards. I've had a go at

Re: [Talk-GB] Historical Mapping in OSM

2010-09-27 Thread 80n
In my opinion historical data is definitely an important part of OSM. Yes it will get cluttered, but better tools will deal with that when it becomes a problem. Short term chronological data is beneficial anyway. For future events, new roads etc, they can be surveyed and added ahead of their

Re: [Talk-GB] Historical Mapping in OSM

2010-09-27 Thread Richard Palmer
Dear Dave, On 26/09/2010 23:47, Richard Palmer wrote: I'm involved in a project looking at the history of a street in London (The Strand). One of things we'd like to do is produce a 'animated' map showing the changes along it from the C18th onwards. I've had a go at

Re: [Talk-GB] Historical Mapping in OSM

2010-09-27 Thread SomeoneElse
On 27/09/2010 12:02, Dave F. wrote: I've an abandoned railway in my area where sections of it are now invisible having been completely leveled used as agricultural land. Someone's tagged these as railway=abandoned. I don't think they should. I'd agree with that. I think that what

Re: [Talk-GB] Historical Mapping in OSM

2010-09-27 Thread Lester Caine
Richard Palmer wrote: On 26/09/2010 23:47, Richard Palmer wrote: I'm involved in a project looking at the history of a street in London (The Strand). One of things we'd like to do is produce a 'animated' map showing the changes along it from the C18th onwards. I've

Re: [Talk-GB] Historical Mapping in OSM

2010-09-27 Thread Richard Palmer
Dear Lester, start_date and end_date exist, But are not used as much SHOULD be. http://www.slideshare.net/frankieroberto/mapp-history-on-open-street-map was presented last year and gives a nice summary ... I was sure somebody would have done this before!. I'll ask Mr Roberto if he pursued

[Talk-GB] Historical Mapping in OSM

2010-09-26 Thread Richard Palmer
Dear all, I'm involved in a project looking at the history of a street in London (The Strand). One of things we'd like to do is produce a 'animated' map showing the changes along it from the C18th onwards. I've had a go at adding some attributes to OSM for building