Open Historical Map/Plan

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