OpenHistoricalMap/Plans

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

An OpenHistoricalMap project roadmap

Impact on OpenStreetMap

The plans have largely been executed; any remaining items are being tracked in GitHub.

Reason for being historic

The issue tracker and project board on GitHub are more effective venues for tracking action items.

Captured time

2023

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This page is about current plans, and has some record of past plans, some of which happened and some which didn't.

Planning

Planned

Running

Closed

• Make this page look better

Declined

• Open Historical Map/2013 plan - longer-term plans – This older plan document is largely out of date, but is being preserved temporarily
• Create i.e. Jira-based System for issues and planning – We already have an issue tracker and project board on GitHub.

Server infrastructure

Planned

Running

Closed

• Open Historical Map/Dev - get The Rails Port, Mapnik, Mod tile, and Nominatim up and running at http://www.openhistoricalmap.org
• Open Historical Map/TileServer - Tile serving discussion and docs.
  • overpass minutely updates – fixed in [1]
• Transition to vector-tiles [2]
• complete debugging of rebuilt installation
  • vector tiles/time slider

Declined

Map editors

Planned

• Merkaartor
  • Create instruction for use and setup [3]
• JOSM
  • Create plugin to easily switch to OHM-mode and setup filters for start_date and end_date [4]
• Editors in general
  • design plugins to simplify Historical Mapping

Running

Closed

• iD
  • add filter for start_date and end_date to iD – fixed in [5] and again in [6] and yet again in [7]

Declined

Documentation

Planned

• Set up a server for wiki.openhistoricalmap.org [8]
• Migrate information to wiki.openhistoricalmap.org

Running

• Open Historical Map/Tags - identify OHM tagging conventions
• Establish data scheme

Closed

Declined

Map data

Planned

Running

Closed

• Set up a GIS-Server with ressources of historical maps. Each entry must contain the location, bounding box, source name, pointer the ressource (i.e. link). – No dedicated server, but [9] and Map Warper are available for use.

Declined

Other

Planned

Running

• create a more formal community governance model for OHM

Closed

• affiliate with a well chosen partner such as the Linux Foundation or OSM US - OpenHistoricalMap is now a Charter Project of OpenStreetMap US.

Declined

See also

• Software development roadmap on GitHub

External links

• Meyer, Jeff (December 5, 2012). “December Historical OSM Hangout Notes”. historic mailing list. https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/historic/2012-December/000067.html.