Personal notes about potential mapping of the Palenque archeological site from archeological GIS data.

Source

Edwin L. Barnhart. 2001. The Palenque Mapping Project, 1998 - 2000 Final Report

Questions

• Permission to use the data, no licence specified -> get in touch with author
• What to map in OSM? Only visitable areas? Major buildings (ie. Templo Escondido)? Waterways? All site (lots of buildings, does it belong to OSM)? A staged approach is necessary
• Is there any local community / interest groups to get in touch with?
• The data looks like it’s of good quality but dates from 2001. Any updated dataset?
• 3D mapping of certain buildings?
• Source for naming? Limited on-the-ground names, multiple naming schemes (the source paper claims to be overcoming this in a sensible way, is it still up to date, accepted by the archeology community?) English translation for certain objects
• Any prior work in OSM for this site or similar archeological site?

Problems

• Data in DWF format, how to import in JOSM

TODO

• Review OSM data import guidelines
• Add onsite map pictures (seems to be from the same data source)