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

Steven Johnson sejohnson8 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 29 19:03:44 UTC 2015


Hi Albin,
I think that's essentially the task, but instead of invoking openstreetmap,
the TM would instead point to OHM. Awesome if you can stand up a new
instance!
Thanks,

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On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Albin Larsson <albin.post at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm looking into it, shouldn't take much time at all to setup. Just
> setting up a new TM instance connected to OpenHistoricalMap?
>
> //
> Albin
> On Oct 29, 2015 19:32, "Sanjay Seth" <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) 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)
>> or Steven (sejohnson8 at gmail.com).
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Sanjay
>>
>> Sanjay Seth | Research Analyst
>> (917) 546-4327 | www.rpa.org
>> Regional Plan Association
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