[Historic] History notes from SotM US

[Jeff Meyer]

Lots of historic mapping talk at this weekend's SotM US in PDX.

For those of you unable to attend, here are some items that were discussed
- others, please add to items I've missed:

- Lots of great attendees from this list, which made for some excellent
conversation
- There appears to be an interest in putting together historic base maps
for some potential test cases, using a Rails port instance (a parallel
version of OSM) somewhere. I'm going to start going through the process of
trying to set that up shortly... : ) I believe Flickr (Eric Gelinas) &
MapStory.org (Alyssa Wright), at a minimum, are interested tile consumers.
I believe we have some contacts at History Pin, as well. Any advice on
putting together a plan for this would be great. Bartring any input, I'll
put together a (naive) rough set of next steps in the near future.
- I posted my slides on OSM & Online Time Machines at
http://www.slideshare.net/gwhathistory/osm-and-online-time-machines-sotm-us-2012-pdx
- Eric showed off Flickr already doing some time-based basemap variations
for Burning Man

Any thoughts on starting to build out a Historic section of the Wiki?
Good/bad?

Thanks,
Jeff

-- 
Jeff Meyer
Global World History Atlas
www.gwhat.org
jeff at gwhat.org
206-676-2347
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