[OHM] Redesigning the NYPL Building Inspector

[Rob Nickerson]

So the first few changes are now available to view online:

http://leatherwood.herokuapp.com/

I'm not sure if I like the name (bit of a tongue twister). Is "Old Map
Marker" any better than "Historic Map Marker"? Do you have any other
suggestions?

Regards,
Rob


On 15 June 2014 11:56, Rob Nickerson <rob.j.nickerson at gmail.com> wrote:

> All,
>
> One of the first things is a name and introduction. The NYPL site goes
> with:
>
> >The New York Public Library presents
> >Building Inspector
> >Kill Time. Make History.
>
> My initial idea is to use
>
> >Make your mark on history with the
> >Historic Map Marker
> >An OpenHistoricalMap project.
>
> We will also need a new set of images. These are available at the
> following site. Feel free to send in your ideas.
>
>
> https://github.com/OpenHistoricalMap/building-inspector/tree/master/app/assets/images
>
> Regards,
> Rob
>
>
>
>
> On 15 June 2014 11:51, Rob Nickerson <rob.j.nickerson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> We are making good progress with launching our own version of the NYPL
>> Building inspector [1]. So far we have managed to source some really high
>> quality map scans from the National Library of Scotland. We've also got the
>> map vectorisation process up and running.
>>
>> This leaves the website!
>>
>> Tim has forked the nypl code at [2] but and so far it's just a duplicate
>> of [1]. We now need your help to restyle the website to match
>> OpenHistoricalMap.
>>
>> If you have any ides, you can reply here or if you're familiar with
>> github please submit pull requests.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Rob
>>
>> [1] http://buildinginspector.nypl.org/
>> [2] https://github.com/OpenHistoricalMap/building-inspector
>>
>
>
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