Historical event geotagging could rapidly get out of hand. This feels to me very much orthogonal to OSM - almost every news story, photo, work of art, etc arguably deserves a geotag, but hardly any of them deserve to be in OSM. A separate database is where things like this should reside, where a historic or art-themed map UI presents them, perhaps on top of a (faded) standard Mapnik rendering of OSM.
In the case of this picture, I think it would make most sense to add the latlong to its Wikipedia page, then add a Wikipedia layer to your map. I haven't tried layering general Wikipedia info myself but you may find these links useful: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Coord http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Geographical_coordinates#Export_multiple_coordinates http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProjekt_Georeferenzierung/Wikipedia-World/en http://maps.google.de/maps?q=http:%2F%2Ftoolserver.org%2F~kolossos%2Fgeoworld%2FWP-world-maps.php%3Flang%3Den&ie=UTF8&om=1&ll=51.499179,-0.126021&spn=0.011902,0.018582&z=16 - L On 24 Apr 2011, at 03:40, John Smith wrote: > Does any one have any thoughts on what to tag a location famous for 2 > reasons, first it was a spot where a stage coach was held up by > thunderbolt, secondly because someone did a painting of the event > after the event: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailed_Up > > There is no marker at the site or anything else to identify the site, > the only thing I can think of is something like > historic=historical_site, but that seems a bit redundant... > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
