[OHM] OHM Hangout - 18 Dec, 8am PT US / 4pm London

[Karl Grossner]

Hello OHMers, 

I'm planning to join the upcoming hangout and have a few questions I thought I'd put out in advance... 

The discussion of going for an NEH grant has me confused. I'm wondering how a large(ish) federal grant and the various norms for that sort of thing squares with OSM/OHM approached to development so far. For example, grants have submitting institutions, and PIs who formulate phasing and technical plans for deliverable work products and are then responsible to taxpayers for results; key staff are named, etc. etc. 

My impression of OSM development (no expert, though) is that it has come together ad hoc, dev decisions arrived at collectively and so on. Is that the case? Has OSM Foundation received government or foundation support in the past? If not, is OHM charting a different course? Is anyone "lead" or co-lead" from a grant perspective? As OSM Foundation is a UK corporation, is it even eligible for NEH funding? Also, it strikes me that "mapping what's on the ground" is different from mapping what's on old maps in some important ways, with some key research-y questions ahead. 

Separately, my own interest is in putting together an "Orbis Initiative" to build a global historical transport network data repository and some tools for ingest, creation, search/browse and analysis. So that limits it to settlements and inter-city data for the most part (plus maritime) and includes some network analytic tools. I plan to seek big(ish) funding and it would happen in a university research/library setting. I fully support the idea of OHM and hope for strong connections if not integration in the future. As I put this idea together I want to keep you all informed and welcome feedback/reaction. 

cheers, Karl 

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Karl Grossner 
Stanford,CA US 
www.kgeographer.org 


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Hi all - 

How about we hold OHM Hangout on the 18th? (Or, the 19th as a backup?) at 8am PT ( local times here )? 

Topics would include, but not be limited to: 
- NEH ODH grant discussion 
- Tools update (e.g. feature query tool) 
- OHM 2015 goals? 
- Updates of any known OHM projects 
- Any other topics of interest 

Let me know what you think! 

Thanks, 
Jeff 

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Jeff Meyer 
Global World History Atlas 
www.gwhat.org 
jeff at gwhat.org 
206-676-2347 

OpenStreetMap: Mapping with a Human Touch 
osm: Open Historical Map (OHM) / my OSM user page 
t: @GWHAThistory 

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