[OHM] Monthly hangout - quick notes

[Jeff Meyer]

I totally agree with Susanna. This would be a great addition to the OHM
environment & having historic road networks modeled is something OHM is
uniquely positioned to support, given its roots (aka complete reuse) of the
OpenStreetMap infrastructure.

Karl - if we wanted to an import / data connector between Orbis and OHM,
who'd be the right person to talk with?

Thanks!
Jeff

On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 11:22 PM, Susanna Ånäs <susanna.anas at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Karl:
>
> This type of workflow is what is the goal for the Wikimaps environment.
> Set up tasks/groups/challenges/projects that can include scanning,
> gathering material and digitizing/vectorizing and people who are
> contributed to the task. I think a version of the Tasking Manager of HOT
> might be suitable for this (the mapping part) and I suppose there have been
> discussions about it. The question remains, in which environment should
> this "Maker space" be set up, or can it be part of many in a networked
> manner.
>
> I am going to work towards setting up such a group tasking feature in
> Wikimaps in some timescale after establishing the environment first. There
> will be priorities and funding issues that set the pace.
>
> Cheers,
> Susanna
>
> 2014-12-03 8:00 GMT+02:00 Karl Grossner <karlg at stanford.edu>:
>
>> Greetings all,
>>
>> I too am interested in participating in OHM's development, not sure
>> exactly how yet. I was at the NYPL meeting along with Susanna and Tim.
>> Posted some notes about it on my blog the other day (
>> http://kgeographer.org). I've got a scheme in mind for something called
>> The Orbis Initiative, which is an outgrowth from the
>> http://orbis.stanford.edu I've been involved with. The idea is to
>> collectively stitch together a global historical transport network. It
>> needs data scanned from old maps of course, and it needs to come together
>> with its intended uses in mind, which are academic research and ultimately
>> teaching too. That said, the data might be cool for gaming development too.
>> I most definitely want to feed data from it into OHM over time, and maybe
>> data goes the other way too.
>>
>> I do think it will be a 'community-sourced' thing as opposed to pure
>> crowd-sourced. And split into area/period sub-projects. Something like:
>> let's scan and trace these 4 early modern Europe road maps, or these 8 silk
>> road maps. Then people who are especially interested in an area/period can
>> join a like-minded mini-community to build out that piece. I'm trying to
>> locate funding for it and a fair number of people have expressed interest
>> in getting involved (with data, not $$).
>>
>> Very interested to hear what OHMers think of all that...
>>
>> cheers
>> Karl
>>
>> -------------
>> Karl Grossner
>> Digital Humanities Research Developer
>> Stanford University Libraries
>> Stanford,CA US
>> www.kgeographer.org
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> I suppose I sound like a broken record, but it always strikes me as
>> bizarre when these hangouts are discussed after the fact on this list when
>> there's no advance notice or reminder that they're going to happen. I
>> joined the one back in May when I knew about it...
>>
>> And regarding
>>
>> * UNFILLED MAP JOB:
>>> https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/24983?t=4w5iyb
>>>
>>
>> my takeaway from a somewhat dismissive phone chat is that they have one
>> person, or at least a very restricted skillset, in mind for this slot.
>>
>> Eric
>>
>>
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