[OHM] report on OpenHistoricalMap Birds of a Feather at State of the Map

[Susanna Ånäs]

Wow, I am happy to hear about this enthusiasm to blend these technologies!
Hoping to develop the ideas further with you.

Special applause for CC0 and Wikibase! I realize that creating a bespoke
Wikibase will allow creating items freely, and waiving copyright with CC0
will allow instant sharing with Wikidata (for objects considered notable).

Please join the Wikimaps User Group for further discussions:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimaps_User_Group

Cheers,
Susanna

pe 3. elok. 2018 klo 17.01 Tim Waters (chippy2005 at gmail.com) kirjoitti:

> Hi folks,
>
> at the recent SOTM Conference in Milan last week, there was a Birds of a
> Feather / Breakout session on OpenHistoricalMap and general history with
> OSM.
>
> I observed that there were no talks in the programme about history so I
> felt obliged to do one! Here are some notes:
>
> The session was attended by around 12 people, and we began by introducing
> ourselves. Sorry to say, I didn't write down all the names, but there was a
> mixture of people interested generally and from Wikimedia and who worked
> with history.
>
> The BoF began with me explaining what OHM was (most, but not all had heard
> about it) and updating everyone as to the status. New servers, replication,
> hosting and the exciting new vector tiles reboot was talked about. I also
> echoed Rob's recent appeal for enthusiasts to contribute from tiles to
> maintenance to code.
>
> We recapped on how to map within OHM - start_date and end_date tags, and
> the use of historical raster maps.
>
> We talked about whether OHM could be used to store demolished features
> from OSM  - to use OpenHistoricalMap to archive features which no longer
> exist but which were once in OSM.  I have the opinion that this could drive
> contributions up considerably, demonstrate it's usefulness and foster
> closer links with the OSMF all ensuring sustainability.
>
> We talked about the license, ODBL vs CC0 etc.
>
> Petr introduced the Roman Roads project he worked on with the Pelagius
> Project:
> http://commons.pelagios.org/2017/11/building-the-roman-empire-vector-tile-map/
> and suggested that the data could be added to OHM. There are some Roman
> roads and places already in OHM.
>
> We talked about using Wikimedia tools, Wikidata and in particular Wikibase
> (which runs on top of wikidata) to store and query historical objects.  The
> ability to find and query linked historical data was considered important.
> This, naturally, lead to a discussion on "notability" for geographic
> objects.
>
> I also talked about the Wikimedia Warper project which has an embedded OHM
> editor, and it was agreed that storing historical raster images within
> Commons is A Good Idea.
>
> We talked about the difference and (very interesting) challenge of
> representing change in attributes vs just geometry over time.
>
> That's all I can think of from my sparse notes!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tim
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