OSM (or a brother project) will need a specific framework for historical interest.
Andrew has put a lot of work into going through the historical parish maps, and has added names and old_names to numerous streams, bays, etc, which is great stuff, and there is a fair bit of historical information captured in the old_name tags now. However, as an example, a year or so ago I removed the Ewey Bay name tag from Yowie Bay, and replaced it with Yowie Bay being the current name. Andrew argued that I should have just moved Ewey Bay to old name, and I argued that OSM just can't support that kind of historical framework, currently. In this case, the area of Miranda and Yowie Bay was known as Yowie Bay since the earliest times of settlement. Yowie Bay, Como, and the National Park were the destinations of choice for weekend day-trippers from Sydney. It was later that the Government imposed the name of Ewey Bay on the area when they opened the first post office, and gazetted the name. The post office wasn't in the current centre of Miranda, but probably serviced large parts of the area of the present day Miranda. After considerable local protest, and refusal of the local community to use the name Ewey Bay, the name was changed (back) to Yowie Bay after a few years. The railway came through, and later Miranda with its shopping monolith becomes the main settlement, and Yowie Bay a sleepy neighbourhood and associated bay. The only remnant of Ewey Bay is Ewey Creek - which largely flows through some feral flora mess behind Miranda Fair into Yowie Bay. We know from the interest in historic maps, photos, etc, that this stuff is can be interesting. If I was crossing the path of significant explorer, I'd like to stop and look around. However the current framework doesn't cut it. Capturing this historical information is probably a couple of complete new schemas. Ian. On 22 June 2012 08:15, Richard Weait <rich...@weait.com> wrote: > Hi Mark, > > You can sign up for the tagging list via this link. > > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > The historical maps aspect of your interest is held by many others for > various eras. That is still an unsolved problem in OSM, so join in > with others interested in finding a solution. > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > Talk-au@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
