It's really exciting seeing this come together.

What about Historic Building Outliner? Gives you a sense of what the task is 
and the result you end up with. On the other hand 'Booth' is a more flexible 
name.

Cheers, Mia

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> On 18 Jun 2014, at 17:29, Tim Waters <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Have got the vectorized 500 or so test run for London in the 1890s
> up locally - for an image:  
> https://twitter.com/tim_waters/status/479291385850630144/photo/1
> 
> The logo needs to change to reflect the name.
> I don't particularly like "historic map marker" though - since we are not 
> marking maps, or making markers on the map. crowdsourced, vectorisation, 
> fixing, inspecting. Just buildings.
> 
> Building Inspector works because it is both inspecting buildings, working 
> just on buildings, and harkens back to a time when Inspectors actually 
> visited these old buildings (i.e. poor quality tenements) 
> 
> Our case is currently in the UK - is around the same time, but probably more 
> of these buildings currently exist? (guessing here though!)
> 
> Some ideas:
> 
> Historic Map Inspector 
> Building Surveyor
> Historic Building Constructor
> Historic Building Fixer
> Ghost Mapper
> Ghost Building Mapper  
> Ghost Brick
> Ghost Bricks and Mortar
> Houses and History
> Historic Map Booth
> Old Building Kiosk
> 
> I like Ghost Building Mapper as it's both ghostly as in they may no longer be 
> there, and ghostly as in the mapping was done by a computer mainly, not by 
> hand.
> 
> I like Historic Map Booth because a booth like a kiosk is a small and self 
> contained - like the tasks in the site. And it references Booth's poverty 
> maps - which were UK specfifc
> 
> Anyhow, just thinking - we could always keep the "Building Inspector" name...
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Tim
> 
>    
>  
> 
> 
>> On 17 June 2014 00:31, Rob H Warren <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> I've put together a quick vocabulary for the interchange of control points 
>> in maps. The idea is that any data source can be use to setup the control 
>> points before warping / re-projecting, eg: a OHM town can be used to warp a 
>> small scale map or a geo:Point long/lat to geo-reference another.
>> 
>> It's currently in OWL format here [1], but using the same tag names in 
>> different representations (json, key/value pairs) would go a long way for 
>> interoperability.
>> 
>> Feel free to import / pull / push / twist / etc.
>> 
>> rhw
>> [1] https://github.com/muninn/specs
>> On Jun 16, 2014, at 9:00 AM, [email protected] wrote:
>> 
>> > Message: 1
>> > Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2014 17:12:33 +0300
>> > From: Susanna ?n?s <[email protected]>
>> > To: Rob Nickerson <[email protected]>
>> > Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>> > Subject: Re: [OHM] Redesigning the NYPL Building Inspector
>> > Message-ID:
>> >       <cabq1c1wfak3mzk9avszregf1gqk+rbhd+slgz8h4wvlwhc4...@mail.gmail.com>
>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
>> >
>> > Hi Rob,
>> >
>> > That's great to hear! I will not hurry up unnecessarily now then. Let's let
>> > the pieces fall gracefully into their places!
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Susanna
>> >
>> >
>> > 2014-06-15 14:03 GMT+03:00 Rob Nickerson <[email protected]>:
>> >
>> >> Hi Susanna,
>> >>
>> >> I (personally) have absolutely no problem styling it as a joint
>> >> OpenHistoricalMap and Wikimaps project. It's my long hold belief that
>> >> OpenStreetMap/OpenHistoricalMap and the Wikimedia commons projects should
>> >> be tied a lot closer.
>> >>
>> >> Although I cannot easily make your hangouts I am following what you are
>> >> doing and cannot wait to see more. At this stage we have a site up and
>> >> running (thanks to NYPL) so just need to redesign it a bit. Any further
>> >> integration with Wikimaps/OHM can follow as and when we're ready.
>> >>
>> >> Rob
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On 15 June 2014 11:54, Susanna ?n?s <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> We at the Wikimaps project will be really interested in the integration!
>> >>> But I cannot imagine how soon any real dev could take place. But I would 
>> >>> be
>> >>> happy to share mockups in near future.
>> >>>
>> >>> Susanna
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> 2014-06-15 13:51 GMT+03:00 Rob Nickerson <[email protected]>:
>> >>>
>> >>>> Hi All,
>> >>>>
>> >>>> We are making good progress with launching our own version of the NYPL
>> >>>> Building inspector [1]. So far we have managed to source some really 
>> >>>> high
>> >>>> quality map scans from the National Library of Scotland. We've also got 
>> >>>> the
>> >>>> map vectorisation process up and running.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> This leaves the website!
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Tim has forked the nypl code at [2] but and so far it's just a duplicate
>> >>>> of [1]. We now need your help to restyle the website to match
>> >>>> OpenHistoricalMap.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> If you have any ides, you can reply here or if you're familiar with
>> >>>> github please submit pull requests.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Best regards,
>> >>>> Rob
>> >>>>
>> >>>> [1] http://buildinginspector.nypl.org/
>> >>>> [2] https://github.com/OpenHistoricalMap/building-inspector
>> >>>>
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