[OHM] OSM Birthday Sprint OHM updates

[Jeff Meyer]

All -

FYI - all has not been quiet on the Historical Mapping front during the
Birthday sprint weekend.

- *Dynamic updates* - tile serving updates seem to be fixed... give 'er a
shot and let me know if it's working (or not for you). The problem, once
discovered, as many are, was small and easily fixed.
- *Carto-based styling* - we're now switched over to Carto for our styling.
If there are changes you'd like to make, please check out our stylesheets
at https://github.com/OpenHistoricalMap/ohm-carto, which you can check out,
test with TileMill. Once you're happy with your changes, you can do a pull
request and we can get these styles updated on our server. If that sounds
waaaay too techie (because it is), send me a note directly & we can get you
up and running.
- *A (soon to be time) filtered layer* - called Experimental is now up on
the Sandbox. Go here:
http://www.openhistoricalmap.org/?lat=40.79433&lon=-119.2171&zoom=17&layers=Hand
then select the Experimental layer. You'll see some of the point
change. So... there's a first step toward filtering based on time rules.
Thanks to Mikel and Dan Vanderkam for working on that out in DC.

Other issues coming soon:

- *Coastline updater* - I'm working to get this running so that we can see
shorelines updated as we remove man-made landfills and piers, particularly
in urban areas.
- *Crazy stuff* - I'm not sure what Rob Warren is doing, but I think he has
some fun stuff related to linked data up his sleeve & coming soon.

As background, we have had a couple server-related issues over the past
couple of months. I'm hoping we can track those issues down and keep it
running more reliably moving forward.

I hope to have more to share in the near future,
take care,
Jeff


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