Moving Historical Geodata to the Web
The New York Public Library
Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
November 5-7, 2014
Wednesday, November 5th, 2014
Lightning Talks
Begin - The State of the Art - Part 1
Moving Historical Geodata to the Web
The New York Public Library
Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
November 5-7, 2014
Wednesday, November 5th, 2014
Lightning Talks
Chris Fleet, National Library of Scotland
National Library of Scotland : historic maps and viewers
91,000 online maps
600 georeferenced layers
OpenLayers
GeoServer
MapTiler
JQuery
QGIS
National Library of Scotland : Web Services
Great Britain Historical Maps API
TMS / WMS / WMTS
OpenStreetMap historic layers
Google Maps Gallery content
National Library of Scotland - Collaborative projects Vectorising features
AddressingHistory - Post Office Directories
Visualising Urban Geographies
MESH (Mapping Edinburgh’s Social History)
Chris Fleet, National Library of Scotland - c.fleet@nls.uk - http://maps.nls.uk
Moving Historical Geodata to the Web
The New York Public Library
Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
November 5-7, 2014
Wednesday, November 5th, 2014
Lightning Talks
Bill Ferster, University of Virginia
Maps as Objects | Maps in Context | Maps in Spaces
MapScholar makes it easy to:
Bill Ferster | Max Edelson | University of Virginia
www.mapscholar.org
KML Overlays on maps
Very hi-res tiled historic maps
Easy to use authoring tool
Fast /easy geo-referencing of maps
3D shows underlying terrain
Fast / easy choropleths
Moving Historical Geodata to the Web
The New York Public Library
Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
November 5-7, 2014
Wednesday, November 5th, 2014
Lightning Talks
Tonia Sutherland, University of Pittsburgh
Collaborative Goals:
Moving Historical Geodata to the Web
The New York Public Library
Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
November 5-7, 2014
Wednesday, November 5th, 2014
Lightning Talks
Karl Grossner, Stanford University
*
(use cases for)�Historical Geodata on the Web
Karl Grossner
Digital Humanities Research Developer
Stanford University Libraries
Building Inspector is an object lesson in how to digitize old maps: a set of maps, a clear circumscribed purpose, a highly usable system, institutional support
Open Historical Map
Get your �(old) map on!
The ORBIS
of Everywhere
And When
USGS
Historical
Topo Maps
Your historical
mapping project �here
??
??
http://orbis.stanford.edu
October, 2014
640,000 users since May 2012
Q: What about an ORBIS of ______ ?
A: Of course, let’s do it!
Q: Why not yet?
A: Need data, time and $$, and if it’s to be shared, hosts and a standard or two
Arrowsmith 1810; Map Exhibiting the Great Post Roads, Physical and Political Divisions of Europe.
Cassini �1750-1815;
Carte de France
ORBIS 2012;
Sea mesh of the Roman World
Challenges
Links
@kgeographer
Work
Blog
SIG
Moving Historical Geodata to the Web
The New York Public Library
Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
November 5-7, 2014
Wednesday, November 5th, 2014
Lightning Talks
Sue Bigelow, City of Vancouver Archives
Moving Historical Geodata to the Web
The New York Public Library
Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
November 5-7, 2014
Wednesday, November 5th, 2014
Lightning Talks
Patrick Florance, Tufts University
Moving Historical Geodata to the Web
The New York Public Library
Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
November 5-7, 2014
Wednesday, November 5th, 2014
Lightning Talks
Merrick Lex Berman, Harvard University
Temporal Gazetteer Web Service
Merrick Lex Berman mberman@fas.harvard.edu
Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard
617-496-9439
TGAZ System – Overview
New API Launched
Moving Historical Geodata to the Web
The New York Public Library
Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
November 5-7, 2014
Wednesday, November 5th, 2014
Lightning Talks
Petr Pridal, Klokan Technologies GmbH
www.klokantech.com
www.oldmapsonline.org
boundingbox.klokantech.com
www.georeferencer.com
Moving Historical Geodata to the Web
The New York Public Library
Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
November 5-7, 2014
Wednesday, November 5th, 2014
Lightning Talks
Jon Voss, Shift
Moving Historical Geodata to the Web
The New York Public Library
Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
November 5-7, 2014
Wednesday, November 5th, 2014
Lightning Talks
Evan Thornberry, Boston Public Library
Moving Historical Geodata to the Web
The New York Public Library
Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
November 5-7, 2014
Wednesday, November 5th, 2014
Lightning Talks
Mark McGee, Harvard University
Moving Historical Geodata to the Web
The New York Public Library
Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
November 5-7, 2014
Wednesday, November 5th, 2014
Lightning Talks
Humphrey Southall, University of Portsmouth
Hello, I am Humphrey Southall …
Old maps online are better than paper maps
Barriers to old maps online everywhere
Moving Historical Geodata to the Web
The New York Public Library
Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
November 5-7, 2014
Wednesday, November 5th, 2014
Lightning Talks
Tim Waters, Topomancy LLC
19th Century Hunterston, Scotland
OpenHistoricalMap.org
start_date
end_date
Combined - all times
2009
2008
Also Historic OSM Data
Roman Mainz
OpenHistoricalMap.org
OSM Stack
Renderd / Mapnik – date range support
Osm2pgsql – lua script to import start_date and end_date
TODO
ID Editor – date filtering / time widget
Dynamic tiles / caching.
Vector tiles
Community
https://github.com/openhistoricalmap/
OSM OHM Mailing List�http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Historical_Map
leatherwood.herokuapp.com/
“OSM Way”
Adhoc
Do what works first
start_date / end_date
Imagery / Re:Build
OSM vs GIS
Crowd vs Establishment?
OpenHistoricalMap.org
leatherwood.herokuapp.com
512 buildings
NLS Map London, 19th C
Moving Historical Geodata to the Web
The New York Public Library
Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
November 5-7, 2014
Wednesday, November 5th, 2014
Lightning Talks
End - The State of the Art - Part 1
Moving Historical Geodata to the Web
The New York Public Library
Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
November 5-7, 2014
Wednesday, November 5th, 2014
Lightning Talks
Begin - The State of the Art - Part 2
Moving Historical Geodata to the Web
The New York Public Library
Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
November 5-7, 2014
Wednesday, November 5th, 2014
Lightning Talks
Tsering Wangyal Shawa, Princeton University
Moving Historical Geodata to the Web
The New York Public Library
Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
November 5-7, 2014
Wednesday, November 5th, 2014
Lightning Talks
Julie Sweetkind-Singer, Stanford University
Digital Philanthropy and Image Integration
Julie Sweetkind-Singer
November 5, 2014
Moving Historical Geodata to the Web
The New York Public Library
Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
November 5-7, 2014
Wednesday, November 5th, 2014
Lightning Talks
Jack Reed, Stanford University
Geospatial Discovery and Digital Libraries, Introducing GeoBlacklight
Jack Reed / @mejackreed
GeoHydra
OGC Standards / Web Services
GeoBlacklight
Preservation
Access
Discovery
Moving Historical Geodata to the Web
The New York Public Library
Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
November 5-7, 2014
Wednesday, November 5th, 2014
Lightning Talks
Jessie Braden, Pratt Institute
Geospatial Professionals in Academia: Harnessing the Collective Brain Power
Anyone know a good air quality sensor for smart phones?
Here’s a great tutorial using D3 to make map graphics.
Another new web mapping tool?!
Has anyone tried a flipped classroom for GIS?
This site/organization should
Focus on geospatial academic support in the following areas:
1. Instruction/teaching
2. Data & information management
3. Computing infrastructure
4. Research
5. New tools development
6. Job/Freelance postings
Not be owned or governed by any one organization or company.
Be inclusive but selective in who can be an editor/contributor.
Start light weight and grow organically.
http://www.hollyorr.com/gpa/
Test site
Join us
Jessie Braden: savi@pratt.edu
Patrick Florance: patrick.florance@tufts.edu
Holly Orr: holly.orr@nyu.edu
Moving Historical Geodata to the Web
The New York Public Library
Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
November 5-7, 2014
Wednesday, November 5th, 2014
Lightning Talks
Christopher Thatcher, Library of Congress
ETL and Geodata at LC
Chris Thatcher / Digital & Web Initiatives
http://www.loc.gov
100+ Databases & Workflows
One Search
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extract,_transform,_load
Adding Value
http://loc.gazetteer.us/
Work in Progress
Geographic search and supplements
ETL and Geodata at LC
Chris Thatcher / Digital & Web Initiatives
http://www.loc.gov
Special thanks to NYPL, Matt Knutzen, and Topomancy.
Moving Historical Geodata to the Web
The New York Public Library
Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
November 5-7, 2014
Wednesday, November 5th, 2014
Lightning Talks
Kimberly Kowal, British Library
Kimberly C. Kowal, Lead Curator, Digital Mapping
Digital Mapping
at the British Library
Ottermouth Haven [Coasts of Devon and Dorset from Dartmouth to Weymouth with a written description of Ottermouth Haven]. William Cecil, Lord Burghley, 1579. BL Shelfmark: Royal MS. 18. D.III
Ordnance Survey: paper to digital collecting, 1780 to 2014
Pelagios 3: Early Geospatial Documents
Moving Historical Geodata to the Web
The New York Public Library
Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
November 5-7, 2014
Wednesday, November 5th, 2014
Lightning Talks
Tom MacWright, Mapbox
Change
Time
Solved & Unsolved Problems - Tom MacWright - tmcw
©
Solved & Unsolved Problems - Tom MacWright - tmcw
Standards
Solved & Unsolved Problems - Tom MacWright - tmcw
Moving Historical Geodata to the Web
The New York Public Library
Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
November 5-7, 2014
Wednesday, November 5th, 2014
Lightning Talks
Stace Maples, Yale University
Moving Historical Geodata to the Web
The New York Public Library
Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
November 5-7, 2014
Wednesday, November 5th, 2014
Lightning Talks
Michael Sperazza, Stony Brook University
GEOSPATIAL CENTER
MAPPING LONG ISLAND
MAPPING LONG ISLAND
Moving Historical Geodata to the Web
The New York Public Library
Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
November 5-7, 2014
Wednesday, November 5th, 2014
Lightning Talks
Salim Mohammed, Stanford University
Moving Historical Geodata to the Web
The New York Public Library
Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
November 5-7, 2014
Wednesday, November 5th, 2014
Lightning Talks
Wayne Graham, University of Virginia
neatline.org
neatline.org
Moving Historical Geodata to the Web
The New York Public Library
Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
November 5-7, 2014
Wednesday, November 5th, 2014
Lightning Talks
Susanna Ånäs, Wikimaps
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikimaps
Documentation and features
wikimaps.wikimedia.fi/events Every first Tuesday of the Month
Wikimaps Nordic 16:00
Wikimaps Designers & Developers 18:00 EET/EEST
Moving Historical Geodata to the Web
The New York Public Library
Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
November 5-7, 2014
Wednesday, November 5th, 2014
Lightning Talks
Ben Lewis, Harvard University
A Training-by-Crowdsourcing Approach for Place Name Extraction from Historical Maps
Yao-Yi Chiang USC, Ben Lewis Harvard
BUDAMA
OCR
Text pattern recognition
Possible lookup input from existing gazetteers.
(georeferenced raster)
Eventual linked data publishing?
Draft System Diagram
Text Example