I'll see if I can get the correct start & stop times on the videos & paste those URLs into the programme on Lanyrd. I'll then provide slihgtly more accessible links.
The availability of rectified historical maps on Android apps in Japan was a complete eye-opener for me. See slides at http://mcaf.ee/g41aq. I liked this talk because it showed (probably better than I did) that mapping for today and for yesterday are a seamless continuum. Jerry On 12 September 2013 11:59, Tim Waters <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > just thought I'd update you all on the recent 2013 State of the Map > Conference in Birmingham now the videos are being uploaded. > > David Evans did a great OHM talk: http://lanyrd.com/2013/sotm/scphdh/ > Video: starts around 2hrs 38mins : > http://citizen.civico.net/openstreetmapfoundation/stateofthemap/1138 > > Susanna Annas did a talk on the Wikimaps project: > http://lanyrd.com/2013/sotm/scphgd/ > Video: > http://citizen.civico.net/openstreetmapfoundation/stateofthemap/1138 > 3hrs 54mins > > There were also some other presentations (I missed these) which had some > historical content, including one about finding a lost river in Japan. If > you came across other highlights do share! > > We had a very short shared BoF of wikimaps and OHM which was attended by > mainly interested and curious mappers. I filled in folks about OHM project > and Susanna about wikimaps, but I don't think there was much to report, > more a case of chatting with folks who wanted to know more. > > During the Code Day following the main conference we were able to do some > brainstorming, and I helped guide some folks with the rectification of out > of copyright Irish town lands maps which are going up on mapwarper.net. > > In general, for me the theme of the conference is increasing diversity and > widening audiences, and I believe that OHM taps into interested communities > of historians, genealogists etc. > > Cheers, and hope to catch up at foss4g if folks are coming! > > Tim > > _______________________________________________ > Historic mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/historic > >
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