I totally agree with Susanna. This would be a great addition to the OHM environment & having historic road networks modeled is something OHM is uniquely positioned to support, given its roots (aka complete reuse) of the OpenStreetMap infrastructure.
Karl - if we wanted to an import / data connector between Orbis and OHM, who'd be the right person to talk with? Thanks! Jeff On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 11:22 PM, Susanna Ånäs <[email protected]> wrote: > Karl: > > This type of workflow is what is the goal for the Wikimaps environment. > Set up tasks/groups/challenges/projects that can include scanning, > gathering material and digitizing/vectorizing and people who are > contributed to the task. I think a version of the Tasking Manager of HOT > might be suitable for this (the mapping part) and I suppose there have been > discussions about it. The question remains, in which environment should > this "Maker space" be set up, or can it be part of many in a networked > manner. > > I am going to work towards setting up such a group tasking feature in > Wikimaps in some timescale after establishing the environment first. There > will be priorities and funding issues that set the pace. > > Cheers, > Susanna > > 2014-12-03 8:00 GMT+02:00 Karl Grossner <[email protected]>: > >> Greetings all, >> >> I too am interested in participating in OHM's development, not sure >> exactly how yet. I was at the NYPL meeting along with Susanna and Tim. >> Posted some notes about it on my blog the other day ( >> http://kgeographer.org). I've got a scheme in mind for something called >> The Orbis Initiative, which is an outgrowth from the >> http://orbis.stanford.edu I've been involved with. The idea is to >> collectively stitch together a global historical transport network. It >> needs data scanned from old maps of course, and it needs to come together >> with its intended uses in mind, which are academic research and ultimately >> teaching too. That said, the data might be cool for gaming development too. >> I most definitely want to feed data from it into OHM over time, and maybe >> data goes the other way too. >> >> I do think it will be a 'community-sourced' thing as opposed to pure >> crowd-sourced. And split into area/period sub-projects. Something like: >> let's scan and trace these 4 early modern Europe road maps, or these 8 silk >> road maps. Then people who are especially interested in an area/period can >> join a like-minded mini-community to build out that piece. I'm trying to >> locate funding for it and a fair number of people have expressed interest >> in getting involved (with data, not $$). >> >> Very interested to hear what OHMers think of all that... >> >> cheers >> Karl >> >> ------------- >> Karl Grossner >> Digital Humanities Research Developer >> Stanford University Libraries >> Stanford,CA US >> www.kgeographer.org >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> I suppose I sound like a broken record, but it always strikes me as >> bizarre when these hangouts are discussed after the fact on this list when >> there's no advance notice or reminder that they're going to happen. I >> joined the one back in May when I knew about it... >> >> And regarding >> >> * UNFILLED MAP JOB: >>> https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/24983?t=4w5iyb >>> >> >> my takeaway from a somewhat dismissive phone chat is that they have one >> person, or at least a very restricted skillset, in mind for this slot. >> >> Eric >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Historic mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/historic >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Historic mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/historic >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Historic mailing list > [email protected] > https://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 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>
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