<div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-c2b5194f-7fff-3595-6ac4-cb68a985eb0a"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="color:rgb(67,67,67);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="">Hello OHM community!</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(67,67,67);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">I run a nonprofit geospatial web shop called </span><a href="https://www.greeninfo.org/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">GreenInfo Network</span></a><span style="color:rgb(67,67,67);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, and we’ve been working on a range of new features and improvements to OHM. (Our team includes our own staff plus Jeff Meyer and very active OSM-expert developers </span><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Mojodna" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Seth Fitzsimmons</span></a><span style="color:rgb(67,67,67);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> and </span><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/JimmyRocks" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Jim McAndrew</span></a><span style="color:rgb(67,67,67);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.)</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="color:rgb(67,67,67);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Two of the most exciting new improvements are:</font></span></p><ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;color:rgb(67,67,67);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Rendering vector tiles from the OHM planet, with regular updates (every 5 minutes). This uses the OpenMapTiles stack.</font></span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;color:rgb(67,67,67);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">A new demo of a working time slider that filters the vector tiles, implemented to work as both a MB GL control and a Leaflet plugin.</font></span></p></li></ol><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="color:rgb(67,67,67);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">We also have a near-complete version of the OHM stack running on AWS where we have replaced the raster maptiles with GL, and where we plan to implement this time slider soon.</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="color:rgb(67,67,67);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">But first we’d love to have you all take a look and give us feedback:</font></span></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(67,67,67);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://openhistoricalmap.github.io/openhistoricaltiles/mbgl-control-timeslider/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Demo in Mapbox GL</font></span></a></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(67,67,67);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://github.com/OpenHistoricalMap/openhistoricaltiles/tree/gh-pages/mbgl-control-timeslider" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Code for Mapbox GL</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(67,67,67);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://openhistoricalmap.github.io/openhistoricaltiles/leaflet-control-mbgltimeslider/demo/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Leaflet demo</font></span></a></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(67,67,67);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><a href="https://github.com/OpenHistoricalMap/openhistoricaltiles/tree/gh-pages/leaflet-control-mbgltimeslider" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Leaflet control code</font></span></a></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(67,67,67);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">You can file issues in </span><a href="https://github.com/OpenHistoricalMap/openhistoricaltiles/issues" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">the GH repo here</span></a><span style="color:rgb(67,67,67);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. For bug reports, let us know which demo you are using (Mapbox vs Leaflet) and details of browser. Screenshots are always helpful as well.</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="color:rgb(67,67,67);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">These maptiles are generated directly from the live OHM Planet and associated diffs.</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="color:rgb(67,67,67);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">We are aware that a vector-only solution has limitations, and we have some thoughts about how we can also provide raster tiles filtered by date, but this implementation seemed like a good first step in making a usable slider based on real OHM data.</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="color:rgb(67,67,67);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Looking forward to your feedback.</font></span></p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="color:rgb(67,67,67);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Best,</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="color:rgb(67,67,67);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="">Dan</font></span></p></span><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><b><span style="font-size:12.8px">Dan Rademacher, </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">Executive Director</span></b></div><div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="mailto:dan@greeninfo.org" target="_blank">dan@greeninfo.org</a> </div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Office: (510) 350-8700 x310. </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">Mobile: (510) 928-7799</span></div></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">GreenInfo Network - Information and Mapping in the Public Interest</span><br></div><div>2201 Broadway, Suite M5, Oakland CA 94612</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.greeninfo.org/" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">www.GreenInfo.org</a><br></div><div>Twitter: @greeninfo, @danrademacher</div><div><a href="http://instagram.com/greeninfonetwork" target="_blank">instagram.com/greeninfonetwork</a></div><div>Subscribe to MapLines, our e-newsletter, at <a href="http://www.GreenInfo.org" target="_blank">www.GreenInfo.org</a></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>