I'd like to get it to that point, especially in recording the changes
in the spatial objects over time.
The other issue is that while a contributor might add the border of
the Kingdom of Prussia and another the border of the Free State of
Prussia, the ways that are common to both objects will eventually need
to be merged. This is going to require some creativity, but it is
doable. I also suspect that eventually we'll have a few different
'application websites' that use the OHM back-end for storage but
render application specific timelines only.
I'd suggest we start by putting in some data and we'll build the tools
as we go along.
rhw
On 28-Feb-13, at 9:11 PM, [email protected] wrote:
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Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:52:27 -0600
From: Ed Dykhuizen <[email protected]>
To: Burrito Justice <[email protected]>
Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, Joseph
Pettigrew <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [OHM] [Historic] Historic Digest, Vol 7, Issue 9
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Hi all,
I don't know if I should be counted towards any quorum of any kind
-- I'm
not a developer, just someone interested in this topic and very
happy to
see it being pursued. Specifically, I had an idea a while ago about
creating political maps for each year throughout history. So you
could look
at a political map of Europe around 343 BC and then move a dial
towards the
same area around 323 BC and see how the political map changed as
Alexander
the Great went on his conquerin' spree. I'm a big history fan, and
more of
a visual learner, so something like this would really help me
solidify a
lot of world history.
Granted, creating political maps for every year in history is a
Herculean
task. So I was hoping someone could develop an interface that would
allow
non-tech-savvy people like myself to make such changes. You know,
something
where I could go to the map of 343 BC and draw and then manipulate a
boundary like you do in Photoshop. Maybe I could then put in some
placemarks for specific events that then link to Wikipedia articles
about
them. Then when I'm done I could hit upload and see the changes on a
master
set of maps that anyone can work on. If it were that easy you could
maybe
get a lot of history buffs to do the work for free, a la Wikipedia.
Teachers in particular might be interested because the end product
could
really help in teaching history.
I've been reading the emails to try to figure out if something like
this is
in the works, but I admit, there's so much that's over my head that
I just
get lost. Does any of what I'm describing sound like anyone's plans?
Thanks so much for reading this,
Ed Dykhuizen
(And I'm including my friend Joe on this -- hope you don't mind!)
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