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I understand that a company which has invested in these maps wants a ROI, but really, the polygons should be in the public domain and improved on accuracy. I ca
by GijsjanB 8y ago
I understand that a company which has invested in these maps wants a ROI, but really, the polygons should be in the public domain and improved on accuracy. I can imagine a lot of people would be interested to work on this.
- mongol 8y agoYes. Perhaps the next major Wikipedia - like project :-)
- akavel 8y agoI once thought of such a project - a dynamic map of borders and battles/army movements through history. Perhaps crowdsourced ala Wikimapia/OpenStreetMap. But never tried to work on making this project reality. Could have even scientific value, but also high potential for quarells, and need to somehow represent uncertainty, probably.
- mongol 8y agoAn approach similar to Wikidata could be taken. "According yo Israel, the border changed like this". I.e. not a database of objective facts, but of statements.
- maxerickson 8y agoIt isn't moving very fast, but OpenHistoricalMap is an existing thing: http://www.openhistoricalmap.org/ http://www.openhistoricalmap.org/ It is based on the OpenStreetMap tech stack.
- cobbzilla 8y agoI made https://histori.city https://histori.city to be a wikipedia + maps mashup. the novel feature was adding a time range control so you can navigate the map in both space and across time. it's a work in progress, currently has a few tens of thousands of battles and city-foundings throughout history. it would be nice to remove google dependency and use OSM.