Historical Markers Database: US
jonthegeek opened this issue · 2 comments
Dataset: Needs to be scraped from https://www.hmdb.org/geolists.asp?c=United%20States%20of%20America&u=
For this issue, just do the US; we could expand later to other places.
Article: The main website https://www.hmdb.org/ should do. They have lots of stories and analyses, but nothing super data-sciency.
I've checked robots.txt and their usage policies, and we're free to use them as long as we link back to hmdb.org, and keep attribution attached to any photos.
Photographer: Clifton Patrick
Taken: June 14, 2011
Caption: Camp Wickham Marker
Submitted: June 14, 2011, by Clifton Patrick of Chester, NY, United States.
FYI, there is a big dataset of places of historical significance (code: HSTS) in the Geonames dataset (https://www.geonames.org/export/codes.html). The geonames ZIP for US, is about 66MB in size.
Not comparable directly with the manually collated data from the source you mention, but related.
This website/database recently got a lot of use in this NPR article: https://www.npr.org/2024/04/21/1244899635/civil-war-confederate-statue-markers-sign-history