Richard Welty writes: > 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.
OSM doesn't have a good concept of time. It would be reasonable to put non-current data into OSM except that it would show up in editors, and renderers likely don't know about the ending-date tags and would render data not currently present on the ground. E.g. at this time and date General Custer was here, then he was there. -- --my blog is at http://blog.russnelson.com Crynwr supports open source software 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315-600-8815 Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | Sheepdog _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
