[OHM] Historic Digest, Vol 12, Issue 9

[Jeff Meyer]

I have yet to buy my tix for Birmingham, but am leaning toward attending...
need to get on it and commit.

Susanna mentioned she'd be there & I believe Mr. Waters will be there, too.


On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 7:23 PM, Rob Warren <warren at muninn-project.org>wrote:

> Jeff,
>
> Talked to Eero, Juha and Thea at the LODLAM meeting in Montreal, things
> are generally going in this direction for everyone involved. Another
> project is Wikiwar [1] that tried to crowd source a lot of the extraction.
>
> The work by Eero et al depends on external sources for their data (e.g.:
> the official history of the great war and wikipedia) and they don't make
> their own decisions about what is important.
>
> Paraphrasing a quote from a period movie:"It was a battle that was really
> only a small skirmish that was unrecorded by historians, but it was
> memorable enough for those who took part."
>
> I'm going to hook in the trench map coordinate generator into the OHM to
> automate imports from linked open data for the Great War. But I think that
> the value of OHM is that smaller, pinpoint events can be recorded by people.
>
> I note that pretty much everyone knows where the Battle of Gettysburgh
> happened, but the details, such as where someone's ancestor was billeted or
> fought, is something that we still need recorded.
>
> Incidently, is anyone going to the State of the Map is Birmingham?
>
>
> [1] http://www.wikiwar.net/
>
> > From: Jeff Meyer <jeff at gwhat.org>
> > To: "historic at openstreetmap.org" <historic at openstreetmap.org>
> > Subject: [OHM] Interesting event gazeteer article
> >
> > All -
> > Susanna pointed this out to me today & I thought others might find it
> > interesting:
> > http://www.seco.tkk.fi/publications/2011/hyvonen-et-al-sapo-2011.pdf
> >
> > I'm not up to speed on historical event models, but this looks like a
> great
> > step in the right direction for potential use for higher-frequency events
> > (i.e. stuff people would put in map overlays and not into base tiles...).
> >
> > If you know of other stuff like this, please let me know!
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jeff
>
>
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