I have yet to buy my tix for Birmingham, but am leaning toward attending... need to get on it and commit.
Susanna mentioned she'd be there & I believe Mr. Waters will be there, too. On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 7:23 PM, Rob Warren <[email protected]>wrote: > Jeff, > > Talked to Eero, Juha and Thea at the LODLAM meeting in Montreal, things > are generally going in this direction for everyone involved. Another > project is Wikiwar [1] that tried to crowd source a lot of the extraction. > > The work by Eero et al depends on external sources for their data (e.g.: > the official history of the great war and wikipedia) and they don't make > their own decisions about what is important. > > Paraphrasing a quote from a period movie:"It was a battle that was really > only a small skirmish that was unrecorded by historians, but it was > memorable enough for those who took part." > > I'm going to hook in the trench map coordinate generator into the OHM to > automate imports from linked open data for the Great War. But I think that > the value of OHM is that smaller, pinpoint events can be recorded by people. > > I note that pretty much everyone knows where the Battle of Gettysburgh > happened, but the details, such as where someone's ancestor was billeted or > fought, is something that we still need recorded. > > Incidently, is anyone going to the State of the Map is Birmingham? > > > [1] http://www.wikiwar.net/ > > > From: Jeff Meyer <[email protected]> > > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > > Subject: [OHM] Interesting event gazeteer article > > > > All - > > Susanna pointed this out to me today & I thought others might find it > > interesting: > > http://www.seco.tkk.fi/publications/2011/hyvonen-et-al-sapo-2011.pdf > > > > I'm not up to speed on historical event models, but this looks like a > great > > step in the right direction for potential use for higher-frequency events > > (i.e. stuff people would put in map overlays and not into base tiles...). > > > > If you know of other stuff like this, please let me know! > > > > Thanks, > > Jeff > > > _______________________________________________ > Historic mailing list > [email protected] > http://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 <http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/jeffmeyer> 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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