Great wrap up, thank you! Great work! I hope we can chip in within a few days with contributions/proposals for linked data for the Warper / OHM and the old UI tasks for putting together MapWarper and OHM in the Wikimaps setup. I would like to connect with those who want to share ideas about these.
Susanna 2015-06-09 8:35 GMT+03:00 Jeff Meyer <[email protected]>: > Hi all - > > We had a good turnout today for the hack day and had some great > conversations, got some dev work done, met a new content contributor > (Roop!), had guest appearances for tech support (Sajjad, Geohacker), and > hung out with the NYPL Labs crew. All in all, it was a great day. > > Presentations: > > - Building Inspector back-end > -- Mauricio Giraldo gave a great presentation of how the NYPL Building > Inspector back-end works. This would be a great start for anyone attempting > to import old (i.e. copyright-free) Sanborn insurance maps > > Tech updates: > > - Server updates > -- Sanjay worked on getting the OHM codebase upgraded to the latest OSM > (routing & data inspector) and getting security updates for the server > > - Tileserving performance > -- Sajjad & Tim worked on updating the tile refresh interval - let us > know if you see any differences! (I think I have already - I'm not just > saying that, either, Tim!) > > - Overpass interval > -- Richard improved the refresh & updating interval of the Overpass api > > - Pointing iD at wms servers > -- Not really an update, but I'm not sure if we've talked about it > much... you can point iD at warped old maps and start going to town in OHM > using iD - how sweet is that? Christian is busy mapping 1825 Paris now > > Conversations: > > - Time standards > -- Burrito Justice, Dave Riordan, Matt Knutzen and a few others had a > good session on the limitations of the ISO 8601 time format for both older > and vague time identification, along with questions of how to cite times > relative to a source (e.g. a map of 1750 France drawn in 1800). > > - Copyright > -- an OdbL license may be a barrier to having institutions like NYPL use > OHM as a primary data repository. I'll start gathering thoughts on that - > if you have any, let's start a separate thread. > > - Vector Tile Server > -- There's an emerging consensus that using a vector tile server and > some updating browser code might be the fastest way to having usable > time-based filters for OHM. Burrito and Tim talked briefly about using > Mapzen's Vector Tile Server and the Tangram vector tile renderer set up. > Later, Sajjad and Tim talked about some alternate approaches that might > involve Mapnik 3.0 or modifications to our existing stack. > > General Organizational Topics: > > - Formalizing a nonprofit entity for OHM > -- This deserves its own thread and conversation, but it's clear to me > that we need to do this in order to be taken seriously as an organization > and it's pretty much a necessary but not sufficient requirement for getting > funding. My clarity is based on feedback from others who've pursued grant > funding as well as from providers of potential grants. I'll be sending out > some notes on this separately. If you have any thoughts or suggestions > prior to that, please feel free to send them to the alias or to me directly. > > - Project tracking tools > -- I'd like to set up a better project tracking system than the Wiki - > I've set up an example on Trello, which doesn't have to be the final > answer, but I know Susanna has used it for Wikidata. Any objections to > using this? I've sent out some invites, but let me know if you'd like to be > added (or removed!). > > Attendees (in no particular order): > - Richard Welty (nfgautoparts), Anandaroop Roy (freelance historical map > designer (I'm not kidding!), Tim Waters (chippy), Sanjay Bhangar, Matt > Knutzen (NYPL Maps), David Riordan (NYPL Labs), Ben Vershbow (NYPL Labs), > Jeff Meyer, John Oram (aka Burrito Justice, Mapzen), Sajjad Anwar > (geohacker, Mapbox), Christian Quest (OSM France!), Satoshi IIda, Mauricio > Giraldo (NYPL Labs) > > I'm sure there's tons I've missed, but that's all I can recollect for now. > > Please let me know if you have any questions! > > Thanks, > Jeff > > > -- > 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> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Historic mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/historic > >
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