Hi Mikel! Thanks for the offer - I've actually made some progress on this & should have the Rails Port hosted relatively properly (e.g. sending mail from the right place, etc.) in the next few days.
Tile serving has me a little stumped right now. That's really where the fun in historical mapping will be - seeing the rendered results of your mapping efforts. If we set up a tile server as part of the sandbox, I'd like to limit tile rendering at low zoom levels (say 15+) to selected bboxes, but need to figure out a way of doing this. Otherwise, I could end up owning a RAID array before I know it! : ) Any thoughts / suggestions are most welcome! - Jeff On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 6:20 AM, Mikel Maron <[email protected]> wrote: > Right on. Sorry to miss this one. (Going to miss the next one too, > travelling that day). > > For the rails port, if having a server is a stumbling block, I can offer > up space on GroundTruth's dedicated server. > > * Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Jeff Meyer <[email protected]> > *To:* "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Wednesday, December 5, 2012 3:11 PM > *Subject:* [Historic] December Historical OSM Hangout Notes > > Hi all - > > We'll have better prep next time, but thanks to Eric Butler & Stefano > Costa for joining in a fun conversation. > > Items discussed: > - Introductions & review of interests > -- Stefano is an old-time OSM'er who also works with archaeological > efforts in Italy, near the French border > -- Eric is here in Seattle and cannot remember what was in that empty > retail space he passes on the street & wants to work backward as far as he > can, using the extant OSM database as a starting point > > - Discussion of a potential workflow for extracting semantic information > from old maps using the OSM infrastructure > -- In many ways, this is a modification of Brad Thompson's work with > pastmapper.com: http://blog.pastmapper.com/vectorization/ > -- Used Seattle's Pioneer square in 1878 as an example > -- Extract data for region of interest from modern OSM data using JOSM > -- Delete everything down to the road grid > -- If possible, warp a map to use as a base layer - see: > www.mapwarper.net > -- Trim the street grid down to what existed at the time > -- Start... artisinally.... building things up from scratch, using > whatever sources are available > -- See: http://i.imgur.com/Mj2nh.jpg > ---- Clearly, this is overtagged & many of these tags belong in > other systems, e.g. linked Historical Business Directories or People > Directories or image databases, but it's stored here for now > ---- The roads are from modern OSM, the buildings & other > information are hand-added > > - Discussion of need for getting the Rails Port up & running already > -- I am behind on this, need to get moving > -- Stefano pointed out need for just having something to get started with > -- Stefano mentioned possible interest in Pleiades import, etc. > > - Once the HO Rails Port is up & running, we could then identify what > needs to be fixed to simplify and streamline the workflow > > - Stefano: Interest in mapping geographic changes over time > -- e.g. paths of rivers over 100s of years > > - Eric: Interest in being able to populate map information from geocoded > business information, which is good once there are addresses. > > - Jeff: I'd like to see greater International participation in the > brainstorming for this effort, so that we're all more aware of various > related efforts around the world & to make sure we're putting enough global > perspective into our planning. (Is there ever too much?) > > That's about it for now... need to get that Rails Port up and going... > > Please send any suggestions or ideas to the list. > > Next hangout: 9 January, 9am Seattle, 5pm London > - I'll market this one a little better & provide more advance notice. > > Links discussed during the call (in chrono order (of course!)) > www.pastmapper.com > http://www.burkemuseum.org/waterlines/ > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM-Historic > http://www.showme.net/~fkeller/quake/images/missrivoldpaths.jpg > http://tiles.mapbox.com/jeffme/map/seattlebaist1912 > http://orbis.stanford.edu/ > http://omnesviae.org/ > http://lodlam.net/ > > Thanks, > Jeff > > -- > Jeff Meyer > Global World History Atlas > twitter: GWHAThistory > www.gwhat.org > [email protected] > 206-676-2347 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Historic mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/historic > > > -- Jeff Meyer Global World History Atlas www.gwhat.org [email protected] 206-676-2347
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