[OHM] 3 Students Working for a Semester on Historical Map Project

[Tim Waters]

Hi Nicolas, Jan & Dennis,

this sounds like an awesome project, you are more than welcome to get
involved!

We are on Github, this mailing list and on IRC (#ohm on oftc-net) with
additional docs on the OSM wiki etc

The "time slider" is on our plates and it's a challenge. Some people have
attempted solutions to some parts of this before on OHM and should be
reviewed. Have a search through github issues and mailing list, but also we
can sort out a dev hangout if you need a deep dive into the technology
stack.

The GUI...it's not just one user interface, though, there are several
components, some separate, for example the editor and the tile server, and
some tied in, for example the history pages - but pretty much everything is
available to get started developing locally.

In general, it's still a small project with not many developers working on
it, so any extra help is wanted.

Welcome to OpenHistoricalMap!

cheers,

Tim


On 2 March 2015 at 14:38, Dennis Meier <dennis.meier at epfl.ch> wrote:

>  (Disclaimer: This is a resubmit. The last Mail wasn't accepted by the
> list since I wasn't subscribed)
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> We are 3 students from EPFL (http://epfl.ch/) IT Master Programs. We are
> working this semester on a Digital Humanities Project about the evolution
> of frontiers in the Venice republic. Our predecessor built this nice little
> webapp:
>
> http://veniceatlas.epfl.ch/atlas/timelines/dominio-da-mar/ (you can
> scroll to the bottom of the page to get to the actual map)
>
> Our task would be to improve on this and maybe build something more
> general. For this, we would like to prevent to reinvent the wheel and
> thought about spending our time working on openhistoricalmap.org (OHM)
> instead, e.g.:
>
> * Adding Data about the venice republic to the OHM database
> * Documenting this process / improving OHM documentation in general
> * Implementing improvements to the OHM UI (e.g. adding a timeline slider)
>
> Our ideal final state would be to have a product similar of that of our
> predecessor (which bases on google maps), but on the open and modifiable
> framework of openhistoricalmap.org, such that following generations of
> students (or anybody actually) could add or improve on our work more easily.
>
> Our questions are the following:
>
> * What are your general thoughts about something like this?
> * What would be other possible tasks where both OHM and we as a team could
> profit?
> * Who is responsible for the GUI of OHM in general (or the time slider in
> particular) and could be contacted for directions/questions?
>
> Kind regards,
> Nicolas, Jan & Dennis
>
>
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