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OSM and Online Time Machines SotM US 2012 PDX
1. OSM &
Online
Time
Machines
Building the
world’s most
detailed,
universal, and out
of date, map
SotM US
2012
Portland, OR
13 Oct 2012
Jeff Meyer
jeff@gwhat.org
2.
3. What’s an
Online Time
Machine?
A general-
purpose tool
that takes you
back to a
specific place
and time.
Basic Controls:
Geo Box
Time Box
Content
4. 2004
Mapping
Across
2009
Time…
It’s
Not
a
New
Idea
…And it’s
not
Just about
2009
Historic
Maps
2009
5. Economic Q:
Why Hasn’t
It Caught
On in OSM?
Plenty of other
stuff going on
Including day xn + yn = zn
jobs
Mapping today
still unsolved
Many Hard
Questions
Soylent problem:
History is… people!
6. Why
Now?
Increased
Expectations
Tools getting
better
Mapping & Web
Grasp always
exceeds reach
Temporal
Mapping
Is HOT
7. What OSM
Can Do Now
A lot!
Community
support
(OSM-H)
Tagging advice
(Buildings)
Common
Environment
(Rails port)
9. 1850
OSM
History Issues
Tags
Historic=yes? 1900
Date Convention
Nein!
Event Model
Start_date=yes?
Hell yes!
Building Model
1950
That’s not Authoring tools
enough – many
unresolved Processing
issues.
Tools
2000
Frankie
Roberto’s deck
is the word on Manchester sequence
this topic. Frankie Roberto
16. Dubai
Shorelines
OSM
Do Change
1875
1897
1906
1943
Seattle Burke Museum
17. AUTHORING
Much can be
done in OSM
Lots of historic
geodata doesn’t
“fit” into osm
Still a pain for
time series
Styling
matters… same
data, different
style =
different story
20. Moving Forward on
Moving Backward
• Tag start_date!
• Getting started
• Osm-h discussion
• Sanborn Maps
• Try some test cases
• Real Estate maps
• OSM-H Sandbox
• Warp (easy),
compare, edit,
• Get outside US
repeat
23. Key References &
Contacts
• OSM-H mailing list: lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/historic
• Frankie Roberto’s Mapping History Presentation: www.slideshare.net/
frankieroberto/mapp-history-on-open-street-map
• Shekhar Krishnan & Schuyler Erle’s Open Historical Maps: isites.harvard.edu/
fs/docs/icb.topic39008.files/Shekhar_Krishnan_ABCD_GIS.pdf
• Aaron Cope’s paper on Building=yes
www.museumsandtheweb.com/mw2012/papers/buildingyes
24. Sites to Check Out
Online
Your local library. ; ) Seriously! It’s
quite a “site”!
• MapStory: www.mapstory.org
• Insurance Maps – Sanborn
• Pastmapper: www.pastmapper.com
• Real Estate Maps – e.g. Kroll or Baist in
• OldSF.org: www.oldsf.org
Seattle -
• NYPL Map Warper: • Business Directories – e.g:
http://maps.nypl.org/warper/
• San Francisco – Adams – from
Pastmapper.com - http://www.archive.org/
• Library of Congress American Memory stream/awmorgancossanfr1852awmo#page/
Map Collection: n7/mode/2up
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/
gmdhtml/gmdhome.html
• Seattle – Choir –
http://cdm15015.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/
ref/collection/p15015coll2/id/8573
• USGS Historical Topographic Maps (lots of
good city & shoreline info:
http://cida.usgs.gov/hqsp/apex/f?
p=262:1:150662570906122