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Peter Claughton wrote: > > ... > A number of issues should be addressed - > > 1) Encouraging the publication of raw mining related data - statistical and > textual - in digital form, either on the Internet or on CD. > > 2) Providing a metadatabase of all mining history related digital resources. > > 3) Archiving mining related digital resouces and publications. > Hello, it would me very valuable, if a map-based inventory of mining (and other industrial-archeology) related sites would exist (IMHO). This would make it much easier to track regional developments of mines and their relation to other industries (e.g. coke-plants, steel-mills). I have been thinking of this for quite a while now, but could not find a unified digital map, which could be used as a basis for this purpose. (As I am not a professional historian, high costs prevent me from using GIS.) Just an idea Greetings Harald -- Harald Finster - Windoze can be used on the North-Pole without any problems, ... because a frozen computer can't freeze %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%