OpenHistoricalMap/2013 plan

This page describes a historic artifact in the history of OpenStreetMap. It does not reflect the current situation, but instead documents the historical concepts, issues, or ideas.

About

OpenHistoricalMap's original project roadmap

Impact on OpenStreetMap

The most important parts of the plan were executed, including the setup of a website.

Reason for being historic

The plan has not been updated since 2013 and was superseded by Open Historical Map/Plans.

Captured time

2013

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Let's put together a high-level roadmap of where Historical OSM might go.

It's not intended to be a set of hard targets, but a loose roadmap of where we're headed.

Short Term

• Meet up and discuss, next meeting January 9th 2013 (G+ hangout)
  • Progress with getting rails port going
  • Progress with documenting a suggested HO getting started workflow
  • Any examples we have of using the system
• Set it up: a production OHM sandbox environment based on the OSM Stack - The_Rails_Port, Mapnik, Mod_tile, and Nominatim - see: http://hosm.gwhat.org
• Sign up volunteers to import initial areas of the HOSM Planet.
  • e.g. Divide up volunteers for non-geo overlapping projects - e.g. Seattle in 1878, Pompeii, Babylon, London 1854, Rome 100, Tokyo, Mumbai, Alexandria, etc.
• Resolve Open Historical Map/Historical_Time_Format conventions
• Resolve the issue of Open Historical Map/Hypothetical_vs_Verifiable features.
• Resolve Open Historical Map/LinkedOpenData tags.
• Identify and review sources of historical information
• Identify needs for how to tag & annotate sources of historical information & to trace Historical Data Provenance
• Historical imports
• Time-aware data conversion - fork Osmosis?
• Time-enabled editors
• Time-enabled geocoding - fork Nominatim?
• Time-specific styling & rendering?
• Eventually serve out historical tiles

2013 Targeted Progress

• Jan - have openhistoricalmap.org up and running, full stack - web (Rails), database (Rails), tiles (mod_tile?), geocoder
• Feb - have several interesting areas on the world populated
• Mar - inventory key software mods needed, document starting practices for source, time tagging; initial rendering plan
• Apr - get some sustaining funding grant proposals submitted
• May - start testing some time enabled tools