[Historic] Quick HO update!

[Jeff Meyer]

Whoops!

[1] https://www.dropbox.com/s/n7latj5oza81qwi/DSCN5837%20Dol.JPG

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 12:40 AM, Jeff Meyer <jeff at gwhat.org> wrote:

> 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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> Jeff Meyer
> Global World History Atlas
> www.gwhat.org
> jeff at gwhat.org
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Jeff Meyer
Global World History Atlas
www.gwhat.org
jeff at gwhat.org
206-676-2347
<http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/jeffmeyer> osm: Historical
OSM<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Historical_OSM>
 / my OSM user page <http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/jeffmeyer>
 t: @GWHAThistory <https://twitter.com/GWHAThistory>
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