[OHM] Moving Historical Geodata to the Web & Questions about OHM Decision Making Process

[Tim Waters]

At the recent NYPL workshop someone (and I have forgotten who, apologies!)
suggested that the Tasking Manager seems like a good tool for tracing a
sequence of historical maps from an atlas.
The NYPL digitizer which people mapped tens of thousands of buildings had
some issues in a workshop setting when participants were working on
adjacent areas, and I think people had a bit of  confusion from time to
time about who was working in which areas.

The Irish Townlands project, however, uses a list of maps as far as I can
tell: http://www.townlands.ie/progress/ but has much more detail about
progress of the mapping, and any conflicts etc. I think the project gives a
wonderful resource for cutting edge collaborative OSM usage

On 24 November 2014 at 23:10, Jeff Meyer <jeff at gwhat.org> wrote:

> Laura -
>
> I'd just like to make sure that the response to your email doesn't seem
> too-too-will-o-the-wisp!
>
> Have you seen the response to the digest thread?
>
> I think we might take up Susanna on her offer to attend the Wikimaps
> meeting, but my guess is we have enough issues of our own that will warrant
> our own meeting schedule. I'm hoping to get a few
>
> As for the HOT OSM Tasking Manager - I love that idea. We have a
> combination of development, content, and other needs to really get OHM
> humming. I'm not sure the Tasking Manager lends itself well to our
> immediate tasks, but even if that's not the answer, we need _something_ to
> help us track to-do's and to recruit volunteers. The current OHM wiki is
> probably not the best tool for that, for sure!
>
> So... we still need to put together a more detailed guiding plan, but I'm
> hoping we can avoid the ethereal response you've referenced. We're going to
> get there!
>
> Thanks!
> Jeff
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 11:42 AM, Laura Green <lollymay at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello
>>
>> I've been lurking around here for a couple of months, and would like to
>> join in with understanding and helping with the future of OHM.
>>
>> So in response to the issues raised by Tim Waters and Jeff Meyer - and as
>> an outsider to all this - OHM does seem rather will-o-the-wisp... and I
>> think perhaps could do with moving towards the items that Jeff listed,
>> especially having regular meetings (virtual or real).
>>
>> One thing I'd like to raise is the feasibility of creating a OHM
>> equivalent to the HOT OSM Tasking Manager. But perhaps I should post a
>> separate message to the list?
>>
>> Laura Green
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