[Historic] Quick HO update!

[Jeff Meyer]

All -

FYI - just wanted you to know that while there's not roaring thunder, all
is not quiet on the Historical OSM front.

A few updates:

- Rob Warren has been helping out quite a bit lately, QA'ing the initial
natural planet import that clearly needs some revamping, looking at ways of
tying to semantic systems, along with other activities.

- Mikel Maron has been advising (wisely) that we shouldn't put too much
stock into any single database and that we should expect to throw out
whatever we build (several times) as we start to get this thing going and
as we start to modify the API, etc. I believe this will be a good topic for
our next meeting.

- The hunt for a better hosting solution is getting closer to a solution.
Shekhar is checking into NYPL resources.  Rob has volunteered some server
capacity to use for tile serving. Ian Dees & I conferred and it doesn't
look like the OSM-US dev resources are a good fit for what we're doing, but
I do encourage anyone who's interested to take advantage of those servers -
they're pretty cool. I've also gone ahead and started putting together a
beat-up server and identified some low-end hosting options that should work
well.

- Katherine McDonough has reached out with an interest in getting some
French roads entered into the system [1]. She's also put us in touch with
the Humanities + Design Lab at Stanford and its "Mapping the Republic of
Letters" project.

- I've finally gotten the basic tile server (no automatic updates yet) set
up at hosm.gwhat.org & have made some minor UI tweaks. You can check it out
to see what the initial (flawed) planet import looks like. Poor Lake Tahoe
& the Great Salt Lake. : ( You can also get a little sense of some of the
"automatic" things the current OSM stylesheet does that we'll need to strip
away, where people have really mapped the hydrography of local areas, and
where individual rivers are in need of some cleanup! (e.g. see how the
Mississippi renders at say zoom=6 or how it completely necks down in places
at zoom=higher)

Tally HO!
Jeff

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