Open Historical Map: Approaching Critical Mass
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Okay, thank you very much. I'm going to talk about open historical map. And I would like to thank OSMUS for taking us under their wing and letting us use a variety of their resources, including this conference. And this is a highly abridged version of what we'll be talking about tomorrow at our birds of a feather, which is at the
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730am Pacific time, Maggie. So here we go. The state of the map since Minneapolis, when we talked last year, we presented a prototype with a timeline, a time slider.
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And since then, we've had a variety of disasters on our back end, but we've also had a variety of successes and we managed to bring up an entirely new stack. And we have active ongoing development and an invigorated community. We still have a lot of opportunities moving forward and particularly in the area of community and
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better docs and better styling, even though you see some unusual styling there and some more imports. But the bottom line is that we have kind of kicked things off. And one of the key areas of emphasis for us in this past year was to increase our community engagement.
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And we have active discussions ongoing. I'm glad to say in the OSMUS Slack and in Discord and our community is gone up and up and up. As you can see The change set improvements. This isn't quite as fancy as Jenning's slide, but we'll get there. And you can see there's
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an increasing amount of involvement and people are reaching out and letting us know what they think, which is kind of exciting. And we're seeing all kinds of projects. Richard Welty is here. This is some of his handiwork. In
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most of these cases, we have a, you know, very small scale projects that people are taking on to You know, to implement some of their cool ideas in historical mapping and also we have urban scale and you can see some of our More impressive projects here. A lot of these are individual efforts that you're seeing heavy
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lifting by single people and we'll talk a bit more about that in a second. In fact, I am leaving out Nathaniel here. He was on the call. One of our more prolific mappers, but we also have You know, admin zero types of things. So you're seeing like boundaries of African countries over time
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or small provinces or even states in the United States. So a lot of these are new. And, you know, mapping efforts people have undertaken since we've really improved things on the tech side. We are about to launch our version of the tasking manager, which are very excited about. Thank you to hot for that humanitarian open street map team.
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That's a fantastic tool. And one of the key elements that we're most excited about this for Is for moving from these individual efforts into collaborative mapping efforts so that more people can come
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in and work on the same thing at the same time in a coordinated fashion. It's also Going to be a great tool for us to interact with teach us even more and extend shout out to Greg Hill educator on the call today.
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To interact with classrooms and use this as a teaching tool, both for history and for mapping, you know, it's a bit of a cue ball earth out there. And so there's plenty of greenfield opportunities for mapping. And in terms of being more seconds, just to give you that warning. How many more 30 more seconds 30 Okay, very good. Lots of cool new features coming inspector improvements in the Eli. And as you can see, we need to improve editing because
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When you have a lot of things changing over time. It can be hard. And on that front, you know, we're going to continue to develop our features and grow our community and continue to learn from what you can only do by learning, learning by doing. Thank you very much. Thanks for the heads up.