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stevenbh
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Building History is a non-commercial site that I created and launched last month in an attempt to solve what I see as a problem in the amateur research community: thousands of people spending hours of their time each week producing excellent work, yet without a simple & structured way to record their findings online in a format that can be attributed, referenced, maintained & found in easily found in Google.
The site allows people to create articles for towns/cities/villages, their roads and buildings. It's similar in the way it works to Wikipedia (i.e. anyone can create an account and edit it), but has been designed from the ground up for this purpose and allows any road and building in the UK to be added - not just those of general interest.
It's geared primarily at local history, but provides those conducting genealogical research with a way to find out and share information about how their ancestors lived, worked & socialised.
Functionally the site is complete. It allows images to be used from Geograph and Flickr, Maps and Streetview from Google. There's lots of help available showing how to create and maintain articles.
What it needs now is people to input data. I've been doing this for Warwick where I live and my research can be found at:
https://www.buildinghistory.org.uk/?q=town&gid=2634725
I have no commercial interest in this site, I genuinely hope that it is something that people will find useful. It's success, quantity and quality of information however will depend very much on how many people choose to make use of it.
Building History is a non-commercial site that I created and launched last month in an attempt to solve what I see as a problem in the amateur research community: thousands of people spending hours of their time each week producing excellent work, yet without a simple & structured way to record their findings online in a format that can be attributed, referenced, maintained & found in easily found in Google.
The site allows people to create articles for towns/cities/villages, their roads and buildings. It's similar in the way it works to Wikipedia (i.e. anyone can create an account and edit it), but has been designed from the ground up for this purpose and allows any road and building in the UK to be added - not just those of general interest.
It's geared primarily at local history, but provides those conducting genealogical research with a way to find out and share information about how their ancestors lived, worked & socialised.
Functionally the site is complete. It allows images to be used from Geograph and Flickr, Maps and Streetview from Google. There's lots of help available showing how to create and maintain articles.
What it needs now is people to input data. I've been doing this for Warwick where I live and my research can be found at:
https://www.buildinghistory.org.uk/?q=town&gid=2634725
I have no commercial interest in this site, I genuinely hope that it is something that people will find useful. It's success, quantity and quality of information however will depend very much on how many people choose to make use of it.
