Hello and welcome to another video. First of all: thank you very much for your support so far!
Welcome to all the new subscribers after the State of the Map.
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Today I want to talk about histosm.org which is a map of historical features, not just in Ireland but
worldwide and it's based on OpenStreetMap data - quelle surprise.
So we'll dig right in.
So this is the website his histosm.org - "hist" for history obviously,
"osm" for OpenStreetMap and then org.
And what you see is this and you can zoom out and see the whole world, but of course I'm gonna zoom in
on Ireland and soon enough you see that there's a lot going on in County Clare, we'll get to that.
And on the right hand side you have all the tags that are used and it's all based on the "historic" key,
so let's just look at that in the wiki. So the key is "historic" - you've seen me use it before
for churches and graveyards and benchmarks, I guess, so "historic=" and then it can be any of these here
and stuff you make up because there isn't an official tag yet.
So for example archaeological site which in Ireland very often will be a ringfort, sometimes a lost village or something.
Then, what we also often get is, of course, castle in Ireland
and then of course there are sub tags, so if you have an archaeological site -
I'll go back here, so you see archaeological site - and this includes the UK.
You have a number here - archaeological site is [almost] always the highest number,
because it is the broadest definition, I guess, so it could be a battlefield as well it could be a
ring fort, it could be a village, it could be a monastery and it could even be something that
has buildings on it. And then the next one would be memorial and that's either a monument to someone
or any plaque that you find on the wall is a memorial plaque, so it's it's tagged
historic=memorial and then memorial=plaque, I think.
So I'll just zoom in on Kilkenny, because I've mapped most of those things, so I know what I'm talking about, I think.
My internet's just given up, so I'll zoom in on Kilkenny, if my internet lets me.
You can also use the search bar, so I'll do that ...Kilkenny
and it'll take me to the City of Kilkenny, and you see that it has reduced the number of options here,
because it only shows the things that are on screen at that zoom level.
So we have a lot of memorials ... that's 107 in that piece that I've chosen now. If I just click on that ...
it'll only show the memorials and without clicking on them, I'd say there most of them are the plaques
that I mapped a couple of months ago. If I click on it again, it deletes that or resets that filter.
So by clicking on the things on the right hand side, you filter for these things, so memorial 104.
I'll reset the filter. historic=yes: looking at the number and the locations,
I would think they're mostly benchmarks, because we don't really want historic=yes, but
there is no historic=survey_marker or something like that, so we're just gonna have to live with that.
archaeological site 70, as I said before most of them will be ring forts. If I just click
on one where I know it's a ring fort; that's a bit of a gamble. I'll just click on any of them...
this one, I think, is one. It'll pop up, have a pop-up and give you all the tags for it,
so I was right; it is a ring fort, Loughboy Ringfort, and you have the historic tag here:
historic=archaeological_site, site_ type=fortification, fortification_type=ringfort and then the ID.
So, if you want to edit it, you just click on that link and it opens the iD editor and then it also gives
you the type which can be a node, a way or relation, of course.
I will also, I'll try "limekiln",
because I've mapped a couple of those.
They don't have their own icon; some of them will have their own icon like memorials and
archaeological sites, yeah. Let's go back to limekiln.
And if you click on it, it should open something
or not. That's probably my internet um sorry about that.
It is not it's not harvesting the OpenStreetMap data live. I've sent them an email - oh, I should probably say who made this whole thing.
It's the it's the university of Heidelberg, the GIScience department at the university
in Heidelberg in Germany. I've sent them an email, because
I remembered having mapped a couple of milestones between Goresbridge and
Bagenalstown and they're not appearing on the map. So I was wondering why that was and there should
be four here. And they got back to me and they said they have server problems, so it's not a live view,
but that shouldn't deter you from just checking it out and just playing around with it.
So once um you've chosen one of the things and on the side let's call them a filter
if you've chosen one let's say ogham_stone, there's one in Rothe House and there's the two in Churchclara church ruin
covered in one of my videos, you can then zoom out and it should show you
all the ogham stones that are mapped on OpenStreetMap.
so there seemed to be - where's it gone - there it is 14 ogham stones,
and also in the address bar in your browser, you can also see that it says ogham stone now
up there. So that should show you all the ogham stones. Again, I'm pretty sure there should be more
I think this is Adare here, South of limerick, I remember adding those.
I'm sure somebody else must have added ogham stones, but maybe not, maybe it's just
a cached version that is way older than I think it is.
You can also use it for quality control, so let's say historic=ruins if we look at the key -
it's alphabetical - "ruins remains of structures that were once complete but have fallen into partial or complete repair".
I don't like using historic=ruins, because it's not very precise and we are lucky
enough in Ireland that we can use the British war office map as a base layer, and when you turn
that on in your iD editor or even in JOSM, you will see um it marked as a church or a castle,
and you can use historic=castle or historic=church instead and that that's much more precise
and much more helpful than just tagging it as a ruin. And even if you can see
even if it isn't named on the map, you can usually say that it used to be a house and you can
even use historic=house or something or a water mill if it's near a river, but it will also
often be called a mill in the British War office map.
I meant to go to County Clare.
I've broken it now...
oh yeah - my internet's gone again
the joys of living in the country. Okay, so I've zoomed out to go to Clare and I just discovered
on the side here "site of former pub" 36 occurrences, that's gas. Where are they - oh
they're mostly in the UK, never mind about that. I was going to say that so Irish -it's not so we'll
zoom in on county Clare and let's see if maybe we can reduce the number of historic=ruins.
If i just click on that
and I'll just zoom in on one and see if there's a name attached to it.
See, this is probably a church, because it's next to a well so if I click on it now we get the
pop-up again and, as I said before, we have the osm id and if I click on that it'll open the ...
open the normal OpenStreetMap view and I can go in and edit
and let's just switch to the irish ... the British War office map...
Okay, bad choice, it's not labeled as a church, I'm sure it is one, but I don't want to presume.
Okay, let's try try this one, also because cemetery is spelled wrong.
So let's just click on that and open that one:
So you see here on the British War office map, it says church in ruins so this is a church and
it actually does say in the wikidata Drumcliff Church and Round tower,
so I'm just gonna change it from historic=ruins to historic=church and that will be much more precise.
And then also I will correct the spelling of cemetery, in case somebody is looking for
Drumcliff cemetery and they won't find it in that spelling.
And let's see if the round tower is visible on the satellite view -
yeah - you can see the shadow here, so that's clearly or
very very very likely the round tower, so I'm just going to add that. Really nothing to do with the
topic of ... well not nothing to do with the topic, but as usual I'm getting sidetracked, so it's
area historic and I'm just gonna be very bold and use "round tower" which is not an established
tag but who knows somebody might write a proposal for it.
historic=roundtower, and then we can also use the name. What was the area called? - Drumcliff
Round tower.
There we go, yep we'll just save that. Added round tower, retagged church ruin
and corrected spelling. Sources: British War office map and also esri - is it? - yeah
and upload. And as I said before, this is not a live view, so if I refresh this page now, it won't change
the ruin to a church.
Looks like an interesting site.
So, if I refresh now,
it might not show it right away.
No. Let's go back to histosm. So what you could also use it for
is preparing your staycation. So if you turn off the filter which it won't do now
for me for some reason, and you want to go, let's say you want to go to Kerry
let's say you want to go to Kenmare -
completely random - it's not. You can look at what's available. You know, it has to be mapped
of course, you have to rely on an area being mapped. So let's say around Kenmare: you have six ruins
which are taking a while to show
or five archaeological sites.
This is actually a stone circle.
Sorry, I'm laughing, because I have seen this video on twitter about a tour guide
talking about a standing stone circle - it's very funny.
So this is a stone circle, basically within the town of Kenmare, I don't know
what the other ones are. And then historic=yes or just click on it, I think one is a bridge
or a well. "how to tag properly" - well just watch my video about holy wells. And the other one is
a hotel - I'm probably completely off again, but I mapped Kenmare for our buildings project, so I'm ...
I know it a little bit. Ah here, my internet's too slow. Forget about that.
And there's also a memorial, a monument and a tomb - no castles. But if you -
I'll just deactivate the memorial, if you just zoom out and you want ... you're dying to
see loads of castles, you can just click on the castle filter and it'll show you all the
mapped castles in Ireland of which there is no shortage, as we all know.
So, you know, you can use that to plan your holidays, your staycations and if we're ever allowed again
and it's safe again to travel and you want to go to Spain, you can use the same map for Spain
to look up churches and things like that in Spain. So i think it's a pretty neat idea to
have a map like that and well done to the people in Heidelberg or Heidelberg as people say here.
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