[Historic] January Historical OSM Hangout Notes

[John Levin]

Hi,

Just a quick correction: I'm not involved in the Locating London's Past 
project, though I know people who are. (And awesome is the right word 
for it.) When HOSM is a bit more developed I'll contact them and see if 
there are ways of working together.
My sanctuary work can be found at
http://alsatia.org.uk/
though as yet there are no maps. These will be coming, sooner rather 
than later I hope.

And thanks to Jeff for organising the meeting, and to all the attendees 
for making it a good one.

Best,

John

On 09/01/2013 19:05, Jeff Meyer wrote:
> We had a great meeting today - please see the notes below for a summary
> of what was covered.
>
> Attendees - please forward the chat log, if you can. Mine wasn't
> recorded, so I'm missing a lot of good links. : /
>
> Next meetings:
> - Asia / Aus / etc. - to be scheduled soon
> - NA / Europe - 6 Feb - 0800 Los Angeles, 1700 Berlin - Google+ out shortly
>
> Highlights:
>
> *- HO testbed server update - still not production ready*
>    -- Rails Port (web site front end) is up and running sporadically &
> intermittently at hosm.gwhat.org <http://hosm.gwhat.org>
>    -- Tile Server is not - so editing will be not much fun
>    -- Hardware/hosting:
>        --- Long-term hosting plans still not figured out, but lots of
> possible avenues to pursue in parallel
>        --- OSMF has been contacted to see if they have any available
> resources
>        --- Muninn Project (http://blog.muninn-project.org/), Rob Warren
> - may have some resources to use
>        --- NYPL / Topomancy may have some resources to use
>        --- I am on the hook to send brief description of estimated
> hardware needs to these parties
>    -- URL: hope to have this changed to
> www.openhistoricalmap.org/com/net
> <http://www.openhistoricalmap.org/com/net> soon, with Topomancy's help.
> Sweet! : )
>
> *- Tagging topics*
>    -- None of these are straightforward - time, source, attribution/citation
>    -- No real resolution, just an initial discussion of the need for
> some thinking through of how to mark items for verifiable sourcing,
> whether that information be from an old map, written records, paintings,
> photographs, etc.
>
> *- Links to Open Data*
>    -- Rob discussed his interest in addressing connections between
> Linked Open Data and the HO effort
>    -- Example site currently combining OSM and Linked Data:
> http://linkedgeodata.org/
>    -- Shekhar also discussed work NYPL is doing with a historical gazeteer
>
> *- Historical Areas Discussion* - people interested in setting up
> regions to play with the HO testbed server
>    -- John Levin discussed his work with London from 1660-1725
> (http://www.locatinglondon.org/ - awesome!) and small histories, as well
> as his work with Mapping Petersburg, which is a lovely example of where
> historical tiles could be of use:
> http://www.mappingpetersburg.org/site/?page_id=193
>    -- Rob Warren discussed his work with the Muninn Project, which is an
> amazing project focused on the Great War -
> http://blog.muninn-project.org/ - he is interested in entering data for
> a theater & ensuring it is connected
>    -- Shekhar Krishnan - didn't really volunteer, but I'm hoping he can
> test it with some information from the urban colonial history of Bombay
>    -- Signup sheet: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/HOSM_Project_Sign_Up
>
> *- Copyright Issues*
>    -- There was brief discussion about potential concerns with copyright
> issues and the need to be sensitive to the needs of potential contributors
>    -- General consensus to think about this, but as a much lower
> priority to just getting the server set up and test data entered
>
> *- Plan *
>    -- Need to start putting together at least a loose outline of
> progress goals
>    -- Not intended to be a set of firm deadlines, rather a loose roadmap
> of where we might be headed
>    -- http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Historical_OSM/Plan
>
> *Attendees:*
> - Rob Warren - Muninn Project
> - John Levin - University of Southampton
> - Tim Waters - Map Warper, Topomancy
> - Shekahr Krishnan - MIT STS, Topomancy
> - David Riordan - NYPL
>
> *Links (that I remember):*
> - Muninn Project: http://blog.muninn-project.org/
> - London: http://www.locatinglondon.org/
> - St Petersburg: http://www.mappingpetersburg.org/site/?page_id=272
> - Other historical GIS projects:
> http://anterotesis.com/wordpress/dh-gis-projects/
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff
>
> --
> Jeff Meyer
> Global World History Atlas
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