[OHM] Building Infrastructure for OHM ­– RPA Historic Wetland Mapping

[Sanjay Seth]

That's it! (Whoops, didn't reply all)

There's about 300 maps covering the entire coastline of the NY metropolitan region that I need to georeference (about 20% done) – but eventually we'll set that up as a TMS to overlay atop OHM and get people tracing the features from those maps into OHM. 

We'll work with WCS to create some tutorials on best practices for map interpretation – and link up with TeachOSM and some geographical education groups to engage students who are interested in the project. 

The biggest lift coming up is getting all of these maps properly georeferenced. The plan is to do as much as I can – and also reach out to MapTime NYC/DC to do a session on georeferencing the maps. It's a bit technical, though – so, it does need to be done by someone who is familiar with projections, geographic coordinates, et al.

Thanks for looking into it, Albin! 

Sanjay Seth | Research Analyst
(917) 546-4327 | www.rpa.org
Regional Plan Association
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From: Albin Larsson [albin.post at gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2015 2:46 PM
To: Sanjay Seth
Cc: Historic at openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [OHM] Building Infrastructure for OHM ­– RPA Historic Wetland Mapping

I'm looking into it, shouldn't take much time at all to setup. Just setting up a new TM instance connected to OpenHistoricalMap?

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Albin

On Oct 29, 2015 19:32, "Sanjay Seth" <sanjay at rpa.org<mailto:sanjay at rpa.org>> wrote:
Hi folks –

I had sent around an email about a month ago about a project at RPA (www.rpa.org<http://www.rpa.org>) to map the historic wetlands of the New York metropolitan region from the 1830’s - 1850’s, as part of our research on climate adaptation. (See email chain below for details).

The project has started to take off. We have had a great response from the community so far – and have partnered with Steven Johnson at TeachOSM and others to shepherd this mapping effort. Through this project, we hope to build out some of the infrastructure that would help the OHM community continue to grow.

For this project, we will need a Tasking Manager that is connected to OHM. We could build off the TeachOSM TM by overriding the default iD link for each job – or set up an entirely separate TM for OHM. I think the latter may be a better option. Is there other infrastructure OHM needs to move forward that could fit in the scope of this project? (I have a modest amount of funding that I could use to defray some of the cost of development time. Can anyone on this list point me in the direction of someone who would be willing to get an OHM-connected TM up and running?)

I look forward to hearing any comments, questions, ideas, suggestions from you about this project as it moves forward – and to gauge your interest in the project as a whole. If you would like to be involved in this project, please feel free to contact either myself (sanjay at rpa.org<mailto:sanjay at rpa.org>) or Steven (sejohnson8 at gmail.com<mailto:sejohnson8 at gmail.com>).

Thanks!
Sanjay

Sanjay Seth | Research Analyst
(917) 546-4327 | www.rpa.org<http://www.rpa.org>
Regional Plan Association
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