[OHM] OHM Tasking Manager on OHM Servers

Tue Dec 8 21:10:17 UTC 2015

I should have specified, we are only going to work with these maps right now:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/7vwcw9wwbq2b8id/AAB5SaC1oMbCEpDRDaFehy5oa?dl=0

I’ll go ahead and upload them to Wikimedia Commons. I’ll look at GLAM, but since it’s not a ton of images, I may just brute-force it.

Once they are in Wikimedia Commons, I should be able to access them on the Wikimedia warper, right?

Thanks all –s

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Sanjay Seth | Research Analyst

Regional Plan Association

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From: Sanjay Seth <sanjay at rpa.org<mailto:sanjay at rpa.org>>
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2015 11:20:29 -0500
To: Susanna Ånäs <susanna.anas at gmail.com<mailto:susanna.anas at gmail.com>>, Steven Johnson <sejohnson8 at gmail.com<mailto:sejohnson8 at gmail.com>>
Cc: "Historic at openstreetmap.org<mailto:Historic at openstreetmap.org>" <historic at openstreetmap.org<mailto:historic at openstreetmap.org>>
Subject: Re: [OHM] OHM Tasking Manager on OHM Servers

Here’s the link to the maps from the source: http://nosimagery.noaa.gov/images/shoreline_surveys/survey_scans/NOAA_Shoreline_Survey_Scans.html

Here’s the maps we are going to georeference and trace for the New York metropolitan area: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/q73vhjrnj0e1lbf/AADTjbuSbYM7n2JgtWLG-vOya?dl=0

There’s really no restriction on these. The maps are in the public domain, free of charge.

They should qualify for Wikimedia’s rules about uploads – and the bulk upload feature of Wikimedia Warper will allow the project to expand beyond the New York metropolitan area if other parts of the US are interested in getting involved in mapping their own areas.

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Sanjay Seth | Research Analyst

Regional Plan Association

(917) 546-4327 | rpa.org

From: Susanna Ånäs <susanna.anas at gmail.com<mailto:susanna.anas at gmail.com>>
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2015 03:58:45 -0500
To: Steven Johnson <sejohnson8 at gmail.com<mailto:sejohnson8 at gmail.com>>
Cc: Tim Waters <chippy2005 at gmail.com<mailto:chippy2005 at gmail.com>>, Sanjay Seth <sanjay at rpa.org<mailto:sanjay at rpa.org>>, "Historic at openstreetmap.org<mailto:Historic at openstreetmap.org>" <historic at openstreetmap.org<mailto:historic at openstreetmap.org>>, Richard Welty <rwelty at averillpark.net<mailto:rwelty at averillpark.net>>, Albin Larsson <albin.post at gmail.com<mailto:albin.post at gmail.com>>, Sanjay Bhangar <sanjaybhangar at gmail.com<mailto:sanjaybhangar at gmail.com>>
Subject: Re: [OHM] OHM Tasking Manager on OHM Servers

Hi

I have missed the link to the original maps, could you share it again if they are online. It could be a possibility to go through the process step-by-step publicly, in a FB group or similar (Wikimaps + Historical maps https://www.facebook.com/groups/wikimaps/), if the materials fit Wikimedia Commons.

Susanna

2015-12-02 20:44 GMT+02:00 Steven Johnson <sejohnson8 at gmail.com<mailto:sejohnson8 at gmail.com>>:
Hello all,

Tim, thanks for the explanation, as well as your efforts to make this work. Also, the links to the GWToolkit and wikimaps are quite useful. Presumably, we could try out the process and see how it fits within the workflow.

I'll defer to Sanjay, but I would guess that the copyright issues should be negligible. These are old maps that have been in the public domain for yonks. What I do wonder about is the amount of resources that will be required to enter metadata for each map.

Best,

-- SEJ
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On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 7:20 AM, Tim Waters <chippy2005 at gmail.com<mailto:chippy2005 at gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi Sanjay

On 30 November 2015 at 20:49, Sanjay Seth <sanjay at rpa.org<mailto:sanjay at rpa.org>> wrote:

The Wikimedia Warper that Tim Waters and others are working on has an integration with OHM and will enable batch uploading, which is excellent. This project will require georeferencing 175 maps just for the New York metropolitan area – so, streamlining that process is much appreciated.

This is progressing, although the batch upload facility will not be added to Mapwarper.net currently. The code is open sourced though.

So to be able to use the maps within the wikimaps warper you would need to ensure the maps are suitable for adding to Wikimedia Commons. This would be a two step process.
Firstly, you would need to (and correct me if I'm wrong, wiki people!) ensure that the maps are either out of copyright, public domain or CC0, CC etc.

Secondly also ensuring that each Map has all the necessary metadata associated with it in Commons (scale, dates, author, publishing data, etc).

So an institution would need to first import their images with metadata into Commons first. There is something called the Glam Wiki Toolkit (GWToolkit) which is available for use for importing a load of images - and I think there would be options for adding the necessary map template, too.

There's more information about wikimaps here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikimaps

Best wishes,

Tim

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