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On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 12:40 AM, Jeff Meyer <[email protected]> wrote: > All - > > FYI - just wanted you to know that while there's not roaring thunder, all > is not quiet on the Historical OSM front. > > A few updates: > > - Rob Warren has been helping out quite a bit lately, QA'ing the initial > natural planet import that clearly needs some revamping, looking at ways of > tying to semantic systems, along with other activities. > > - Mikel Maron has been advising (wisely) that we shouldn't put too much > stock into any single database and that we should expect to throw out > whatever we build (several times) as we start to get this thing going and > as we start to modify the API, etc. I believe this will be a good topic for > our next meeting. > > - The hunt for a better hosting solution is getting closer to a solution. > Shekhar is checking into NYPL resources. Rob has volunteered some server > capacity to use for tile serving. Ian Dees & I conferred and it doesn't > look like the OSM-US dev resources are a good fit for what we're doing, but > I do encourage anyone who's interested to take advantage of those servers - > they're pretty cool. I've also gone ahead and started putting together a > beat-up server and identified some low-end hosting options that should work > well. > > - Katherine McDonough has reached out with an interest in getting some > French roads entered into the system [1]. She's also put us in touch with > the Humanities + Design Lab at Stanford and its "Mapping the Republic of > Letters" project. > > - I've finally gotten the basic tile server (no automatic updates yet) set > up at hosm.gwhat.org & have made some minor UI tweaks. You can check it > out to see what the initial (flawed) planet import looks like. Poor Lake > Tahoe & the Great Salt Lake. : ( You can also get a little sense of some of > the "automatic" things the current OSM stylesheet does that we'll need to > strip away, where people have really mapped the hydrography of local areas, > and where individual rivers are in need of some cleanup! (e.g. see how the > Mississippi renders at say zoom=6 or how it completely necks down in places > at zoom=higher) > > Tally HO! > Jeff > > -- > Jeff Meyer > Global World History Atlas > www.gwhat.org > [email protected] > 206-676-2347 > <http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/jeffmeyer> osm: Historical > OSM<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Historical_OSM> > / my OSM user page <http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/jeffmeyer> > t: @GWHAThistory <https://twitter.com/GWHAThistory> > f: GWHAThistory <https://www.facebook.com/GWHAThistory> > > > > -- Jeff Meyer Global World History Atlas www.gwhat.org [email protected] 206-676-2347 <http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/jeffmeyer> osm: Historical OSM<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Historical_OSM> / 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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