So, Steve - when you made your initial query, did you have something in mind?
There are scads of sites scattered throughout the Mid-Atlantic area and, as you can see, a number of us with both interest and experience with mapping historical sites. If we can bring our resources to bear (I'm thinking MappingDC...) I think it could be a really awesome project. Cheers, -- SEJ t: @geomantic s: sejohnson8 "A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes." -- Ludwig Wittgenstein On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 17:09, Richard Welty <rwe...@averillpark.net> wrote: > historical mapping can be hard. i have the resources to do a bunch of it > for > the Civil War, but the tagging system doesn't support a lot of the data and > it would just make a mess of the map, i think, right now. > > but there are cases where we could tag historic road names where they > differ > in a significant way from current names without too much trouble. this > wouldn't > add clutter. > > > On 3/8/11 5:05 PM, Steven Johnson wrote: > > FWIW, when we mapped at Manassas, we mapped what's on the ground now. Not > to say there couldn't be other approaches, but we didn't really have a plan > in hand to do historical mapping. > > -- SEJ > t: @geomantic > s: sejohnson8 > "A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely > of jokes." -- Ludwig Wittgenstein > > > > On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 16:40, Richard Welty <rwe...@averillpark.net>wrote: > >> definitely. i've done some mapping of the Antietam Battlefield Park, >> and would love to do more. >> >> how do you (SteveC) envision this? there are numerous things that can be >> mapped, but some would seem pretty unreasonable to attempt in OSM >> as it is now (e.g., showing all the unit locations during the day at >> Antietam >> as they appear on the 1908 Cope maps). >> >> >> >> On 3/8/11 3:39 PM, Steven Johnson wrote: >> >> I would definitely be interested. We had a mapping party at Manassas >> Battlefield last June, but there are so many other battlefields within an >> easy drive of WashDC that need greater visibility on the map. And now that >> the weather is moderating, it would be a great time to do some historical >> mapping. >> >> On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 05:00, Steve Coast <st...@asklater.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi >>> >>> Anyone interested in mapping civil war sites, maybe with a mapping party? >>> I mention because the anniversaries are all coming up. >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-us mailing list >> Talk-us@openstreetmap.org >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > >
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