OpenHistoricalMap/Plans
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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
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- Open Historical Map/2013 plan - longer-term plans – This older plan document is largely out of date, but is being preserved temporarily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
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.