Time for a BoF, ay? Susanna
2013/7/21 Jeff Meyer <[email protected]> > I have yet to buy my tix for Birmingham, but am leaning toward > attending... need to get on it and commit. > > Susanna mentioned she'd be there & I believe Mr. Waters will be there, too. > > > On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 7:23 PM, Rob Warren <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Jeff, >> >> Talked to Eero, Juha and Thea at the LODLAM meeting in Montreal, things >> are generally going in this direction for everyone involved. Another >> project is Wikiwar [1] that tried to crowd source a lot of the extraction. >> >> The work by Eero et al depends on external sources for their data (e.g.: >> the official history of the great war and wikipedia) and they don't make >> their own decisions about what is important. >> >> Paraphrasing a quote from a period movie:"It was a battle that was really >> only a small skirmish that was unrecorded by historians, but it was >> memorable enough for those who took part." >> >> I'm going to hook in the trench map coordinate generator into the OHM to >> automate imports from linked open data for the Great War. But I think that >> the value of OHM is that smaller, pinpoint events can be recorded by people. >> >> I note that pretty much everyone knows where the Battle of Gettysburgh >> happened, but the details, such as where someone's ancestor was billeted or >> fought, is something that we still need recorded. >> >> Incidently, is anyone going to the State of the Map is Birmingham? >> >> >> [1] http://www.wikiwar.net/ >> >> > From: Jeff Meyer <[email protected]> >> > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >> > Subject: [OHM] Interesting event gazeteer article >> > >> > All - >> > Susanna pointed this out to me today & I thought others might find it >> > interesting: >> > http://www.seco.tkk.fi/publications/2011/hyvonen-et-al-sapo-2011.pdf >> > >> > I'm not up to speed on historical event models, but this looks like a >> great >> > step in the right direction for potential use for higher-frequency >> events >> > (i.e. stuff people would put in map overlays and not into base >> tiles...). >> > >> > If you know of other stuff like this, please let me know! >> > >> > Thanks, >> > Jeff >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > OpenStreetMap: Mapping with a Human Touch > <http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/jeffmeyer> osm: Open Historical Map > (OHM) <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Historical_Map> / my OSM > user page <http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/jeffmeyer> > t: @GWHAThistory <https://twitter.com/GWHAThistory> > f: GWHAThistory <https://www.facebook.com/GWHAThistory> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Historic mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/historic > >
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