Totally agree with Richard's assessment. Does anyone know who's making the selections or organizing the session structure? Is there enough for a mini-track (half day?) of historical sessions? Would that make sense? Also, it would be a shame if the tech challenges section were scheduled at the same time as a talk about something that might help with those challenges. (e.g. using vector tiles to help solve shoreline generation problems.
Any chance Albin will be attending? His recent work might make a good demo. - Jeff On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 9:39 AM, Richard Welty <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3/22/15 11:53 AM, Susanna Ånäs wrote: > > I will submit a talk about the recent Wiki Loves Maps hackathon and the > hacks related to historical mapping. For your information, we intend to > continue developing at least 3 different hacks started in the context of > the hackathon: > > this sounds like 4 strong proposals. when the program committee convenes > we'll see what's what, but this could easily make up an OHM oriented > session. > > > >> >> - *Source/provenance stuff*. Most data added to OHM will require a >> fair degree of research & is not standardly verifiable a la OSM, plus use >> by digital humanities scholars pretty much mandates a high degree of >> documentation of the data. I have therefore been thinking a bit about how >> one might better support this need. >> >> i had been thinking on this the other day, and was planning to start > writing > something about it in my copious spare time. > > richard > > -- [email protected] > Averill Park Networking - GIS & IT Consulting > OpenStreetMap - PostgreSQL - Linux > Java - Web Applications - Search > > > _______________________________________________ > 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> / @OpenHistMap f: GWHAThistory <https://www.facebook.com/GWHAThistory>
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