[OHM] Fwd: Quick notes about the hack day!

Tue Jun 9 19:31:28 UTC 2015

FYI from Susanna on some of her work with building a richer, more
interactive experience for working with historical maps.

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From: Susanna Ånäs <susanna.anas at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 3:24 AM
Subject: Re: [OHM] Quick notes about the hack day!
To: Jeff Meyer <jeff at gwhat.org>

:) You bet I would have wanted to be there!

In general, I have let Wikimaps rest for a few months to see how things are
developing. It seems like a good moment to pick up speed again.

I updated the design document in Commons yesterday a bit (and will
continue) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikimaps/Design

The Warper control points has it's own doc
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1K6EsDHVUJS4q_8T6U1UXOoCQQzRnjc71UJrhzIhW6BI&authuser=0

There is a presentation that explains the work flow in Commons (hefty web
doc) http://wikimaps-dev.github.io/warperdocs/

An extended presentation shows the new interface more thoroughly and
explains content goals http://wikimaps-dev.github.io/Iberoconf/

The mockups can be viewed more quickly in
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/8tb0t7i71on3wxf/AACdxyE-XDjS35spVt7C8mlea?dl=0
They have not been updated lately, and I hope to work on them soon.

Cheers
Susanna

2015-06-09 10:03 GMT+03:00 Jeff Meyer <jeff at gwhat.org>:

> Susanna - do you have any old docs for these projects that you can share
> with links to the group? I think you do, but I cannot remember! The
> conference was good, but would have been more fun with you there! Thanks,
> Jeff
>
> On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 2:03 AM, Susanna Ånäs <susanna.anas at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jeff Meyer
>>> Global World History Atlas
>>> www.gwhat.org
>>> jeff at gwhat.org
>>> 206-676-2347
>>>
>>> OpenStreetMap: Mapping with a Human Touch
>>> osm: Open Historical Map (OHM)
>>> <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Historical_Map> / my OSM user
>>> page <http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/jeffmeyer>
>>> t: @GWHAThistory <https://twitter.com/GWHAThistory> / @OpenHistMap
>>> f: GWHAThistory <https://www.facebook.com/GWHAThistory>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>
>
> --
> Jeff Meyer
> Global World History Atlas
> www.gwhat.org
> jeff at gwhat.org
> 206-676-2347
>
> OpenStreetMap: Mapping with a Human Touch
> osm: Open Historical Map (OHM)
> <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Historical_Map> / my OSM user
> page <http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/jeffmeyer>
> t: @GWHAThistory <https://twitter.com/GWHAThistory> / @OpenHistMap
> f: GWHAThistory <https://www.facebook.com/GWHAThistory>
>
>
>
>

-- 
Jeff Meyer
Global World History Atlas
www.gwhat.org
jeff at gwhat.org
206-676-2347

OpenStreetMap: Mapping with a Human Touch
osm: Open Historical Map (OHM)
<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Historical_Map> / my OSM user page
<http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/jeffmeyer>
t: @GWHAThistory <https://twitter.com/GWHAThistory> / @OpenHistMap
f: GWHAThistory <https://www.facebook.com/GWHAThistory>
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