[OHM] OHM Tasking Manager on OHM Servers

Tue Dec 8 21:11:30 UTC 2015

You have to make sure you include the Template:Map in the file page
metadata. We are just tweaking it, and we will have the changes made in a
day or two. Minor tweaks though. So if you upload by hand and will update
later that will be fine anyway.

Cheers
Susanna

2015-12-08 23:10 GMT+02:00 Sanjay Seth <sanjay at rpa.org>:

> 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
>
> —
>
> *Sanjay Seth* | Research Analyst
>
> Regional Plan Association
>
> (917) 546-4327 | rpa.org
>
>
> From: Sanjay Seth <sanjay at rpa.org>
> Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2015 11:20:29 -0500
> To: Susanna Ånäs <susanna.anas at gmail.com>, Steven Johnson <
> sejohnson8 at gmail.com>
> Cc: "Historic at openstreetmap.org" <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.
>
> —
>
> *Sanjay Seth* | Research Analyst
>
> Regional Plan Association
>
> (917) 546-4327 | rpa.org
>
>
> From: Susanna Ånäs <susanna.anas at gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2015 03:58:45 -0500
> To: Steven Johnson <sejohnson8 at gmail.com>
> Cc: Tim Waters <chippy2005 at gmail.com>, Sanjay Seth <sanjay at rpa.org>, "
> Historic at openstreetmap.org" <historic at openstreetmap.org>, Richard Welty <
> rwelty at averillpark.net>, Albin Larsson <albin.post at gmail.com>, Sanjay
> Bhangar <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>:
>
>> 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
>> -- twitter: @geomantic
>> -- skype: sejohnson8
>>
>> "Wretches, utter wretches, keep your hands off beans!" - v.141, *On
>> Nature, *Empedocles
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 7:20 AM, Tim Waters <chippy2005 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Sanjay
>>>
>>> On 30 November 2015 at 20:49, Sanjay Seth <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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