<div class="gmail_quote"><div><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Congrats on getting selected, Jeff! Looks like you've got a compelling session ahead of you.</font></pre><pre><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Agenda items look good to me -- I wish I could be in Portland for this discussion!</font></span></pre>
<pre><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">My two cents -- if there's time, it might also be interesting, in addition to your point about existing historical applications that could use historical data, to consider not only distant-past applications like Civil War battles, etc, but also to note the enhancements that would be made possible for nearer-term projects that make do with present-day maps when they're ostensibly describing historical information. For example, for a visualization of the path of Hurricane Katrina, it would be more useful if the hurricane overlay were displayed on top of urban developments accurate to 2005 (showing an intact Lower Ninth Ward, for instance) instead of the present-day map imagery, which would </font></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap">anachronistically </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap">show Katrina itself bearing down on urban infrastructure that has undergone years of post-Katrina rebuilding. In other words, temporally-accurate maps would offer a slew of unintended benefits to existing map visualizations.</span></pre>
<pre><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I'll be very curious to hear about the feedback and conversations that come from your session. Report back!</font></span></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap">
<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Cheers</font></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Brad</font></pre></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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1. OSM Historic session at SOTM USA in Portland (Jeff Meyer)<br>
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Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:19:40 -0700<br>
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Hey team -<br>
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SOTM USA selected my proposal for a session on online time machines - w00t!<br>
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Anyone interested in helping out / have suggestions of things I should be<br>
sure to cover?<br>
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I'd like to use this 25 minutes to highlight some of the objectives of OHM<br>
& the issues we've started to identify on this list.<br>
I'm also thinking of a perspective of "What's happened since Frankie<br>
Roberto's last pitch?"<br>
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Thanks!<br>
Jeff<br>
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Original submission:<br>
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# OSM and Online Time Machines<br>
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OSM has focused primarily on the here and now, but it provides a great<br>
infrastructure and foundation for the creation and collection of historic<br>
information. This presentation will review:<br>
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- Past efforts at using OSM to record historic information & lessons learned<br>
- The beloved start_date and end_date tags<br>
- Temporal rendering and storytelling challenges<br>
- Current historic storytelling applications that could consume OSM<br>
historic data<br>
- Establishment of a historic OSM sandbox environment<br>
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Jeff Meyer<br>
Global World History Atlas<br>
<a href="http://www.gwhat.org" target="_blank">www.gwhat.org</a><br>
<a href="mailto:jeff@gwhat.org">jeff@gwhat.org</a><br>
<a href="tel:206-676-2347" value="+12066762347">206-676-2347</a><br>
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