[OHM] Wikimaps

[Jeff Meyer]

Hi Susanna -

This sounds like a great project!

Much of what you're describing sounds similar to the workflow we're
thinking about here on the OHM list - digitize & georeference old maps, and
then translate that data into OSM-style vector information for rendering of
historic-based tiles, give t, x, y, and z.

Have you given any thought to using OHM as a part of your workflow? If not,
how could we make it appealing and usable for your goals?

- Jeff




On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Susanna Ånäs <susanna.anas at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Everyone!
>
> My name is Susanna Ånäs and I am active in the Finnish Wikimedia. We have
> a cooperation project going with the Finnish National Archives with their
> historical maps and this has given us the opportunity to look anew at the
> Wikimaps environment.
> http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikiprojekti_Historialliset_kartat/In_english
>
> Wikimaps was introduced as a concept by Maarten Dammers
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Multichill/Wikimaps
> . The idea is to combine environments in Wikimedia to form a maps
> environment for scanned (historical) maps. I introduced the idea at
> GLAM-Wiki in London and I have my presentation slides on Sideshare at
> http://www.slideshare.net/susannaanas/glam-wiki-wikimaps
> .
>
> A test environment is planned to be put up for testing for the Amsterdam
> Hackathon http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Amsterdam_Hackathon_2013, more
> info to follow. We'll put up a Wikimaps page in
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikimaps
>  and gather material there (Feel free to start, I have not yet had the
> time :)
>
> Join the discussion about the project on maps-l at lists.wikimedia.org list!
>
> Nice to know all of you!
>
> Best regards,
> Susanna Ånäs
> User:Susannaanas
>
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