<div dir="ltr">Totally agree with Richard's assessment.<div><br></div><div>Does anyone know who's making the selections or organizing the session structure? Is there enough for a mini-track (half day?) of historical sessions? Would that make sense? Also, it would be a shame if the tech challenges section were scheduled at the same time as a talk about something that might help with those challenges. (e.g. using vector tiles to help solve shoreline generation problems.</div><div><br></div><div>Any chance Albin will be attending? His recent work might make a good demo.</div><div><br></div><div>- Jeff</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 9:39 AM, Richard Welty <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rwelty@averillpark.net" target="_blank">rwelty@averillpark.net</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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<div dir="ltr">I will submit a talk about the recent Wiki Loves
Maps hackathon and the hacks related to historical mapping. For
your information, we intend to continue developing at least 3
different hacks started in the context of the hackathon:
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this sounds like 4 strong proposals. when the program committee
convenes<br>
we'll see what's what, but this could easily make up an OHM oriented
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<li><b>Source/provenance stuff</b>. Most data added to
OHM will require a fair degree of research & is
not standardly verifiable a la OSM, plus use by
digital humanities scholars pretty much mandates a
high degree of documentation of the data. I have
therefore been thinking a bit about how one might
better support this need. <br>
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i had been thinking on this the other day, and was planning to start
writing<br>
something about it in my copious spare time.<span class=""><br>
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richard<br>
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