Hi Hannes - I LOVE these layers. Thank you!!!
This tweet contains diagrams that show how to add those layers (1 at a time) to iD: https://twitter.com/OpenHistMap/status/1279135482283085824 The general problem you're describing (not having cool historic baselayers automatically show up in iD) could be solved by having an OHM-specific Editor Layer Index ( https://github.com/osmlab/editor-layer-index) & having OHM's iD point at that. That's a brilliant idea. I've opened a ticket to do just that. It might actually be relatively easy, but "easy" things rarely are & still take work. : ) (https://github.com/OpenHistoricalMap/issues/issues/122) A cool side note: ELI works in JOSM with a small preference setting change. 2 for the price of 1. And, THANK YOU for editing the Wiki page. Fortune favors the bold, my friend! (Piclayer can indeed be fussy, but with a little practice, it's pretty cool) Those Orthos are quite cool, as well. These are all awesome & exciting suggestions - I encourage others to share their thoughts and experiences and to check out Hannes' links. : ) Jeff On Sun, Jul 12, 2020 at 10:55 PM Hannes Röst <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Jeff and others > > Currently the default iD editor seems to have the same background > layers available as OSM and I currently dont see any customization for > OHM. I think it would be cool to have a few pre-set options to choose > from to get people started. I know this can be configured to be region > specific (for example if I go to Switzerland, Thurgau then the "Kanton > Thurgau OF 2017" shows up but nowhere else since these fotos are only > there for Thurgau) so it would be great to collect a bunch of > background tiles one could use. > > Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire (DARE): > https://dh.gu.se/tiles/imperium/{z}/{x}/{y}.png (CC BY 4.0, Europe > specific) > Sulzberger map: > http://warper.wmflabs.org/maps/tile/3271/{z}/{x}/{y}.png (CC0, > location-specific) > > I think this could help "newbies" quite a bit and give them a cool > place to start mapping. It could also help with attribution since we > could store what source information was used for each object and edit. > The least we could do is collect a few "interesting" layers on the > wiki and help newbies to get started. > > Of course eventually this could be location and time-period specific > and the "right" background map could just show up "magically" on the > right side for mapping. > > I know that this functionality already exists on the Warper side (eg > http://warper.wmflabs.org/maps//3271#Trace_tab) but there are more > maps out there then what Warper has and some countries provide tiles > for historic maps. Have you previously thought about that? > > Secondly, it took me some time (and struggling with the very limited > PicLayer JOSM plugging that can only use 3 control points and seems to > do very limited warping) to actually find the Warper and the wiki page > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/MapWarper is only mentioned once > in a long list of tools. I was bold and added this workflow to the > wiki page myself: > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Historical_Map#How_to_trace_a_historic_map_in_OHM > for other to find more easily > > Thirdly, just to bother you more with my usecase: the Swiss Cantons > provide access to Orthofotos layers and they have them historic! > (yay!). Now that may be a cool usecase for this to play around: > https://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Maps/Switzerland - for example grab > the > > Kanton Glarus Orthophoto 2013 {view} > Kanton Glarus Orthophoto 2015 {view} > Kanton Glarus Orthophoto 2017 {view} > > and you have historic 4 years of Orthophoto (Switzerland has these > going back to the 70s but probably not all under suitable licence). > > > > Best > > Hannes > > _______________________________________________ > Historic mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/historic > -- Jeff Meyer 206-676-2347 osm: Open Historical Map (OHM) <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Historical_Map> / my OSM user page <http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/jeffmeyer> t: @OpenHistMap
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