[OHM] Historic Digest, Vol 12, Issue 9

[Susanna Ånäs]

Time for a BoF, ay?

Susanna


2013/7/21 Jeff Meyer <jeff at gwhat.org>

> 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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