OpenStreetMap
I am working on a Wikimedia-Germany project designed to integrate bibliographical and archival data and we would like to become able to track results on maps.
The software we will use is Semantic MediaWiki, and touring through OpenStreetMap I wonde whether we could not get a group of fans who would love to do things with historical maps and data. (E.g. travel routes of historical persons, distributions of search results on maps, networks of historical persons on maps...)
If there are fans for such a task I'd love to win them for the project. Looking through OpenStreetMap I feel we sould not try to invent things you'ver already done here.
for more information see
* http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bibliographisch-archivalische_Datenbank
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Bibliographical_Database
* http://wiki-grid.org/wikigrid/index.php5?title=G:Visualisations
best wishes
Discussion
Comment from HannesHH on 3 November 2011 at 20:59
OpenStreetMap is not a place where you could add this kind of information.
It might be a good base for you though, eg with as a base layer and the historical information coming in from a secondary database.
Sounds like a very interesting project!
Comment from Olaf Simons on 4 November 2011 at 10:38
You are right - such data should not go into OpenStreetMap. I am rather thinking of a new site that allows historical entries - though I wonder how this would be done.
This is a London 1746 map
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rocque%27s_Map_of_London_1741-5.jpg
imagine historians could annotate that. I'd love to use a software such as you have it here at a new page I am designing with Wikimedia Germany at http://wiki-grid.org/ to allow histotrians to enter annotations.
...and I have many questions: How would one organise this with such different frames such as London 18th-century, London 1740s, London 1746. Open Street Map is simmpe. It only wants to be up to date. Our world would consist of historical layers. At the moment I am rather puzzeld by options and problems (and looking for people with a bit of more practical expertise to say: "that is what it would look like!"
This is something stupid I created in 2001: a map of London useful for all who visit the place in 1720 with the aim to buy novels of the last ten years.
http://www.pierre-marteau.com/resources/novels/places-london.html
We have travellers giving us information abot the city's infrastructure. I would love to connect their information with a map.
Comment from z-dude on 5 November 2011 at 03:15
there is a place for historic place names (ie petra, atlantis, constantinople), but they'd be mapped as places with a historical names, or as ruins, or archeological attractions.