[OHM] Quick notes about the hack day!

Tue Jun 9 06:03:58 UTC 2015

Great wrap up, thank you! Great work!

I hope we can chip in within a few days with contributions/proposals for
linked data for the Warper / OHM and the old UI tasks for putting together
MapWarper and OHM in the Wikimaps setup. I would like to connect with those
who want to share ideas about these.

Susanna

2015-06-09 8:35 GMT+03:00 Jeff Meyer <jeff at gwhat.org>:

> Hi all -
>
> We had a good turnout today for the hack day and had some great
> conversations, got some dev work done, met a new content contributor
> (Roop!), had guest appearances for tech support (Sajjad, Geohacker), and
> hung out with the NYPL Labs crew. All in all, it was a great day.
>
> Presentations:
>
> - Building Inspector back-end
>   -- Mauricio Giraldo gave a great presentation of how the NYPL Building
> Inspector back-end works. This would be a great start for anyone attempting
> to import old (i.e. copyright-free) Sanborn insurance maps
>
> Tech updates:
>
> - Server updates
>  -- Sanjay worked on getting the OHM codebase upgraded to the latest OSM
> (routing & data inspector) and getting security updates for the server
>
> - Tileserving performance
>  -- Sajjad & Tim worked on updating the tile refresh interval - let us
> know if you see any differences! (I think I have already - I'm not just
> saying that, either, Tim!)
>
> - Overpass interval
>  -- Richard improved the refresh & updating interval of the Overpass api
>
> - Pointing iD at wms servers
>  -- Not really an update, but I'm not sure if we've talked about it
> much... you can point iD at warped old maps and start going to town in OHM
> using iD - how sweet is that? Christian is busy mapping 1825 Paris now
>
> Conversations:
>
> - Time standards
>   -- Burrito Justice, Dave Riordan, Matt Knutzen and a few others had a
> good session on the limitations of the ISO 8601 time format for both older
> and vague time identification, along with questions of how to cite times
> relative to a source (e.g. a map of 1750 France drawn in 1800).
>
> - Copyright
>   -- an OdbL license may be a barrier to having institutions like NYPL use
> OHM as a primary data repository. I'll start gathering thoughts on that -
> if you have any, let's start a separate thread.
>
> - Vector Tile Server
>   -- There's an emerging consensus that using a vector tile server and
> some updating browser code might be the fastest way to having usable
> time-based filters for OHM. Burrito and Tim talked briefly about using
> Mapzen's Vector Tile Server and the Tangram vector tile renderer set up.
> Later, Sajjad and Tim talked about some alternate approaches that might
> involve Mapnik 3.0 or modifications to our existing stack.
>
> General Organizational Topics:
>
> - Formalizing a nonprofit entity for OHM
>   -- This deserves its own thread and conversation, but it's clear to me
> that we need to do this in order to be taken seriously as an organization
> and it's pretty much a necessary but not sufficient requirement for getting
> funding. My clarity is based on feedback from others who've pursued grant
> funding as well as from providers of potential grants. I'll be sending out
> some notes on this separately. If you have any thoughts or suggestions
> prior to that, please feel free to send them to the alias or to me directly.
>
> - Project tracking tools
>   -- I'd like to set up a better project tracking system than the Wiki -
> I've set up an example on Trello, which doesn't have to be the final
> answer, but I know Susanna has used it for Wikidata. Any objections to
> using this? I've sent out some invites, but let me know if you'd like to be
> added (or removed!).
>
> Attendees (in no particular order):
> - Richard Welty (nfgautoparts), Anandaroop Roy (freelance historical map
> designer (I'm not kidding!), Tim Waters (chippy), Sanjay Bhangar, Matt
> Knutzen (NYPL Maps), David Riordan (NYPL Labs), Ben Vershbow (NYPL Labs),
> Jeff Meyer, John Oram (aka Burrito Justice, Mapzen), Sajjad Anwar
> (geohacker, Mapbox), Christian Quest (OSM France!), Satoshi IIda, Mauricio
> Giraldo (NYPL Labs)
>
> I'm sure there's tons I've missed, but that's all I can recollect for now.
>
> Please let me know if you have any questions!
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff
>
>
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