[OHM] Hidden Geo of NY's Gay Nightlife

[Jeff Meyer]

Hi all -

Just had a quick chat with Jeff Ferzoco's about his project, The Hidden
Geography of New York's Gay Nightlife ( https://zingbot.github.io/OUTgoing/),
and I'm thinking we'll want to talk about it as a group for longer than
just the lightning round at SotM.

Key issues for him for this app that I took away from the conversation:

- Crowdsourcing workflow
  -- Is iD even too heavy? My guess is maybe yes for just adding POI's,
name,
  -- How to curate

- Data
  -- Tagging for curation status

- Dates
  -- Handling approximate date ranges

- Filtering (duh!) / rendering
  -- For static snapshots in time
  -- For animations of say, point data

I've encouraged him to consider using OHM as his data repository for his
app's POI data, but it's not clear we have a good solution for him yet
that's not too heavy.

As an example, I've added a data point for Pennyfeathers from OUTgoing to
OHM here <http://www.openhistoricalmap.org/node/2083292070> & tagged it up
a bit. One interesting part here is that the existing buildings imported
into NYC are from prior to the building of 7th Avenue, so Pennyfeathers
appears to be in the middle of a city block.

Another question is: how could Jeff extract data from OHM to overlay in his
current Leaflet/CartoDB base tile example?

Any thoughts, suggestions, volunteers interested in helping ?

- Jeff


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