<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div>Hi All,<br><br></div>This is a personal response. I'd love to see this in OHM.<br><br>I think one of the important points we want to make that as an open platform OHM removes quite a number of problems with support/longevity/sharing which many of the more successful digital humanities projects tend to run into.<br><br></div>The timeslider is certainly our most pressing UI component which is missing. Some work has been done on it, but this might be best regarded as prototyping of the functionality. Probably Rob Warren is the first point of call to discuss this (but he can be busy).<br><br></div>We have recently been discussing the renderer (see recent emails in this channel). There is some potential for a client-side render (e.g., using Kothic) which would avoid some of the issues with static tile rendering. Just general tweaking of the default Carto style to make it less focussed on modern road layouts and addition of things which have a longer historical context is also something which may be worth doing. I have some ideas on my own to do list (basically motorway/trunk/primary can be rendered similarly, and we probably could do with a more muted colour scheme).<br><br></div>A particularly interesting point with renderers is how to handle coastlines. The OSM approach has a number of flaws, many of which are made more apparent on OHM. I presume that Venice has plenty of changes in coastlines. I have started experimenting with tags for this in Buenos Aires (the shoreline was extended by new docks and land reclamation several times in the late 19th century), but not with how to handle this in renderers.<br><br></div>Regards,<br><br></div>Jerry Clough<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 2 March 2015 at 14:38, Dennis Meier <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dennis.meier@epfl.ch" target="_blank">dennis.meier@epfl.ch</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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(Disclaimer: This is a resubmit. The last Mail wasn't accepted by
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Hi everyone,<br>
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We are 3 students from EPFL (<a href="http://epfl.ch/" target="_blank">http://epfl.ch/</a>) IT Master Programs. We
are working this semester on a Digital Humanities Project about the
evolution of frontiers in the Venice republic. Our predecessor built
this nice little webapp:<br>
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<span><a href="http://veniceatlas.epfl.ch/atlas/timelines/dominio-da-mar/" target="_blank">http://veniceatlas.epfl.ch/atlas/timelines/dominio-da-mar/</a></span>
(you can scroll to the bottom of the page to get to the actual map)<br>
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Our task would be to improve on this and maybe build something more
general. For this, we would like to prevent to reinvent the wheel
and thought about spending our time working on <a href="http://openhistoricalmap.org" target="_blank">openhistoricalmap.org</a>
(OHM) instead, e.g.:<br>
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* Adding Data about the venice republic to the OHM database<br>
* Documenting this process / improving OHM documentation in general<br>
* Implementing improvements to the OHM UI (e.g. adding a timeline
slider)<br>
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Our ideal final state would be to have a product similar of that of
our predecessor (which bases on google maps), but on the open and
modifiable framework of <a href="http://openhistoricalmap.org" target="_blank">openhistoricalmap.org</a>, such that following
generations of students (or anybody actually) could add or improve
on our work more easily.<br>
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Our questions are the following:<br>
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* What are your general thoughts about something like this?<br>
* What would be other possible tasks where both OHM and we as a team
could profit?<br>
* Who is responsible for the GUI of OHM in general (or the time
slider in particular) and could be contacted for
directions/questions?<br>
<br>
Kind regards,<br>
Nicolas, Jan & Dennis<br>
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