>the main thing that is missing from it is a list of 'cultures' or >'civilizations' that we can all use.
In the UK at least there's a defined and well used list of periods provided by the Archaeology Data Service: http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/Imagebank/period.jsf In short, is something like: Palaeolithic 500 000 - 10 000 BC Mesolithic 10,000 - 4,000 BC Neolithic 4000 - 2200 BC Bronze Age 2500 - 700 BC Iron Age 800 BC - 43 AD Roman 43 - 410 AD Early Medieval 410 - 1066 AD Medieval 1066 - 1540 AD Post Medieval 1540 - 1901 AD Modern 1901 - present For the data to be useful for a wider community than OSM, I would strongly suggest following these dates and terms. It's what i use on my grey literature site, for example: http://library.thehumanjourney.net/view/subjects/UK-periods.html Please be aware that "'cultures' or 'civilizations'" don't really work in British archaeology (or anywhere in Europe) any more - we've given up on Culture Historical interpretations of the past. I guess it's only really a matter of semantics, but dealing with periods rather than civilisations will make it much easier to draw in data from the outside world. Also please note that the above list is for the UK only. On the continent, for example, different things happened and happened at different times. It probably wouldn't be possible to get a coherent tagging scheme across Europe that made any sense; there's simply not a consistent European past that could be represented in such a way. Cheers, Joseph On 2 January 2012 11:12, Graham Jones <grahamjones...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On 2 January 2012 09:49, Michael Collinson <m...@ayeltd.biz> wrote: >> >> I've been using historic=roman_road but will be switching to historic=road, >> culture=roman as per an excellent tagging schema proposed by Francesco de >> Virgilio at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Fradeve11/prove2 , as >> this will enable a pan-European approach. > > > I hadn't seen that proposal - I agree it would be good to have a world-wide > scheme, but I am concerned that we could potentially end up with different > tagging schemes here...and I know how unpopular it would be to 'correct' them > electronically in the future.... > > As far as I can tell there is: > > The proposed culture= (no wiki page for it yet other > than http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Fradeve11/prove2 > historic:civilization= > - https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:historic:civilization > > I started a wiki page to record how British historical sites are tagged > (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Historic_Britain) - It would > be good to update that with the proposal - the main thing that is missing > from it is a list of 'cultures' or 'civilizations' that we can all use. > > Neither culture nor historic:civilization are that well used, but there are > more historic:civilization entries (see http://taginfo.osm.org). > > What I intend to do with my map is to have different layers for different > cultures/civilizations so that you can see all roman features, or all cold > war relics etc. > > Regards > > > Graham. > -- > Graham Jones > Hartlepool, UK. > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
