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 Sent from my handheld computing device > 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 >> >>>> >> >>>> _______________________________________________ >> >>>> Historic mailing list >> >>>> [email protected] >> >>>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/historic >> >>>> >> >>>> >> >>> >> >> >> > -------------- next part -------------- >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Historic mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/historic > > _______________________________________________ > Historic mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/historic
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