Jeff
What are you using to serve tiles? mod_tile?
I wouldn't worry about restricting tile rendering, at least now as a blocker.
Unlikely anyone would browse enough to fill up significant disk. And can simply
monitor disk usage, if it starts to creep up, just dump the tile cache.
-Mikel
* Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron
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> From: Jeff Meyer <[email protected]>
>To: Mikel Maron <[email protected]>
>Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>Sent: Monday, December 17, 2012 1:57 PM
>Subject: Re: [Historic] December Historical OSM Hangout Notes
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>Hi Mikel!
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>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.
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>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! : )
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>Any thoughts / suggestions are most welcome!
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>- Jeff
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>On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 6:20 AM, Mikel Maron <[email protected]> wrote:
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>Right on. Sorry to miss this one. (Going to miss the next one too, travelling
>that day).
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>>For the rails port, if having a server is a stumbling block, I can offer up
>>space on GroundTruth's dedicated server.
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>>* Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron
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>>>________________________________
>>> 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
>>>
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>>>
>>>Hi all -
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>>>
>>>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
>>>
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>Jeff Meyer
>Global World History Atlas
>www.gwhat.org
>[email protected]
>206-676-2347
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