[OHM] Redesigning the NYPL Building Inspector
Tim Waters
chippy2005 at gmail.com
Wed Jun 18 16:29:52 UTC 2014
Have got the vectorized 500 or so test run for London in the 1890s
up locally - for an image:
https://twitter.com/tim_waters/status/479291385850630144/photo/1
The logo needs to change to reflect the name.
I don't particularly like "historic map marker" though - since we are not
marking maps, or making markers on the map. crowdsourced, vectorisation,
fixing, inspecting. Just buildings.
Building Inspector works because it is both inspecting buildings, working
just on buildings, and harkens back to a time when Inspectors actually
visited these old buildings (i.e. poor quality tenements)
Our case is currently in the UK - is around the same time, but probably
more of these buildings currently exist? (guessing here though!)
Some ideas:
Historic Map Inspector
Building Surveyor
Historic Building Constructor
Historic Building Fixer
Ghost Mapper
Ghost Building Mapper
Ghost Brick
Ghost Bricks and Mortar
Houses and History
Historic Map Booth
Old Building Kiosk
I like Ghost Building Mapper as it's both ghostly as in they may no longer
be there, and ghostly as in the mapping was done by a computer mainly, not
by hand.
I like Historic Map Booth because a booth like a kiosk is a small and self
contained - like the tasks in the site. And it references Booth's poverty
maps - which were UK specfifc
Anyhow, just thinking - we could always keep the "Building Inspector"
name...
Cheers,
Tim
On 17 June 2014 00:31, Rob H Warren <warren at muninn-project.org> wrote:
>
> I've put together a quick vocabulary for the interchange of control points
> in maps. The idea is that any data source can be use to setup the control
> points before warping / re-projecting, eg: a OHM town can be used to warp a
> small scale map or a geo:Point long/lat to geo-reference another.
>
> It's currently in OWL format here [1], but using the same tag names in
> different representations (json, key/value pairs) would go a long way for
> interoperability.
>
> Feel free to import / pull / push / twist / etc.
>
> rhw
> [1] https://github.com/muninn/specs
> On Jun 16, 2014, at 9:00 AM, historic-request at openstreetmap.org wrote:
>
> > Message: 1
> > Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2014 17:12:33 +0300
> > From: Susanna ?n?s <susanna.anas at gmail.com>
> > To: Rob Nickerson <rob.j.nickerson at gmail.com>
> > Cc: "historic at openstreetmap.org" <historic at openstreetmap.org>
> > Subject: Re: [OHM] Redesigning the NYPL Building Inspector
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> > Hi Rob,
> >
> > That's great to hear! I will not hurry up unnecessarily now then. Let's
> let
> > the pieces fall gracefully into their places!
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Susanna
> >
> >
> > 2014-06-15 14:03 GMT+03:00 Rob Nickerson <rob.j.nickerson at gmail.com>:
> >
> >> Hi Susanna,
> >>
> >> I (personally) have absolutely no problem styling it as a joint
> >> OpenHistoricalMap and Wikimaps project. It's my long hold belief that
> >> OpenStreetMap/OpenHistoricalMap and the Wikimedia commons projects
> should
> >> be tied a lot closer.
> >>
> >> Although I cannot easily make your hangouts I am following what you are
> >> doing and cannot wait to see more. At this stage we have a site up and
> >> running (thanks to NYPL) so just need to redesign it a bit. Any further
> >> integration with Wikimaps/OHM can follow as and when we're ready.
> >>
> >> Rob
> >>
> >>
> >> On 15 June 2014 11:54, Susanna ?n?s <susanna.anas at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> We at the Wikimaps project will be really interested in the
> integration!
> >>> But I cannot imagine how soon any real dev could take place. But I
> would be
> >>> happy to share mockups in near future.
> >>>
> >>> Susanna
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> 2014-06-15 13:51 GMT+03:00 Rob Nickerson <rob.j.nickerson at gmail.com>:
> >>>
> >>>> 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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