Winchelsea is a good example. It was founded in 1281 when King Edward I ordered the first planned town in England, based on a grid, to be built to replace "Old Winchelsea" which had been destroyed by a series of storms.
You can see grid pattern on OSM: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=50.924870967865&lon=0.710163116455078&zoom=16 Paul Y On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Joseph Reeves <iknowjos...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Kate, > > I prefer some of the less obvious examples; > > Peter's Piece Plantation [1] is mentioned in the book "Notes on the > chase of the wild red deer in the counties of Devon and Somerset : > with an appendix descriptive of remarkable runs and incidents > connected with the chase from the year 1780 to the year 1860" [2] Such > an example, I think, really goes against the whole online maps "wiping > out history" [3] claim. > > On a slightly different note, we use OSM to display the location of > (most) the archaeological sites we've worked on [4] and our offices > [5]. > > I'd be really interested to see any OSM tweets / results that come out > of THATCamp. > > Cheers, Joseph > > > [1] http://osm.org/go/euLBE0_n-- > [2] > http://www.archive.org/stream/notesonchaseofwi00coll/notesonchaseofwi00coll_djvu.txt > [3] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7586789.stm > [4] http://mapdata.thehumanjourney.net/sitemap.html > [5] http://mapdata.thehumanjourney.net/office.html > > > > On 19 May 2010 12:41, Kate Chapman <k...@maploser.com> wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I'm attending THATCamp this weekend and would like to talk about >> OpenStreetMap. THATCamp is an unconference specifically related to >> technology applied to the digital humanities. One area I thought >> would be of interest would be historical related areas in >> OpenStreetMap. I was thinking areas with historic value, rather than >> areas that are mapped and no longer exist. >> >> An example near me would be Arlington National Cemetery: >> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=38.87964&lon=-77.06507&zoom=16&layers=B000FTFT >> >> Anyway if you have an examples along that vein that you think are >> particularly good please send them along. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Kate >> user:wonderchook >> >> _______________________________________________ >> talk mailing list >> talk@openstreetmap.org >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >> > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > -- Mob (uk): +44(0) 7814 517 807 Mob (es): +34 651 597 610 _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
