[OHM] Redesigning the NYPL Building Inspector

Wed Jun 18 17:27:19 UTC 2014

It's really exciting seeing this come together.

What about Historic Building Outliner? Gives you a sense of what the task is and the result you end up with. On the other hand 'Booth' is a more flexible name.

Cheers, Mia

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> On 18 Jun 2014, at 17:29, Tim Waters <chippy2005 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
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> 
>> 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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