Wikimaps Wikimania 2013

WIKIMAPSWikimania, Hong Kong, August 10, 2013

Wikimaps Tartu–Hong KongSusanna Ånäs, Wikimedia Suomisusanna.anas@wikimedia.fi, @susannaanas, @WMFinland

Map: Tartu linna plaan, 1914. Estonian National Archives

There are billions of maps in the archives

In Wikimedia Commons maps look like this

This is how they look like in archives

The maps need to be digitized

And georeferenced

Not restricted by copyright

Served through user-friendly interfaces

Referenced from Wikipedia

Used anywhere

Available for annotations

Semantically linked

Returned enriched to memory institutions

Even millions of items should be handled easily

Visualizing scenes from history or literature.

Routing with historical restrictions, road networks.

Linking places to their names across time and also to instances of maps that show them.

Creating historical maps for Wikipedia.

Geotagging historical photographs with the help of the historical maps from the same era.

Exploration of networked historical topics.

What could the maps be used for?

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GLAM cooperation Maps to Commons

Adding geolocation to maps in Commons

Finding maps on a map in Wikimedia

Extracting features from old maps

Spatiotemporal gazetteer in Wikidata

Data driven maps in Wikimedia

GLAM cooperation Maps to Commons

•Developing maps collaboration with GLAMs

• Wikimaps Nordic: ~25 GLAMs in the Nordic countries

•Creating a Template:Map

• Jarek Tuszynski, Maarten Dammers

•Applying the map template in the GLAM-wiki toolset

• David Haskiya, Dan Entous / Europeana

Adding geolocation to maps in Commons

•Creating the Wikimaps Warper

• Georeferencing files from the Commons

• Further developing the MapWarper that has been created for the New York Public Library

• Tim Waters, Tim Alder

Finding maps on a map in Wikimedia

•Using the OSM tileserver that will be hosted by Wikimedia

•Filtering by date, place, topic

Extracting features from old maps

•Collaborating with the OpenStreetMap creating shared resources

• iD editor in Open Historical Map (a project of OpenStreetMap) for digitizing (tracing) the old maps from the Commons

• Storing geometries in OHM and/or Wikidata

• Jeff Meyer, Mikel Maron et al

Spatiotemporal gazetteer in Wikidata

•Connecting geometries with Wikimedia through Wikidata

•Developing the model for interlinking historical geodata and knowledge in Wikimedia

• Change events, hierarchies, geometries, time

• Handling uncertainty and imprecision

• Historical geospatial data task force

Data driven maps in Wikimedia

•Developing maps and map data reuse possibilities in Wikimedia

• Using OpenStreetMap as a base for maps

• Further developing the work of the Wikimedia Maps Lab

• Combining geometries and data from Wikimaps / Wikimedia & external sources

• Hugo Lopez, Arun Ganesh

Wikimaps Tartu–Hong Kong

Wikimaps workshop in State of the Map BalticsAugust 4, Tartu, Estonia

Wikimaps roundtable in WikimaniaAugust 7, Hong Kong

Open Historical Map code sprintAugust 10 & 11, USA

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikimaps/Wikimaps_Tartu–Hong_Konghttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikimaps/Wikimaps_Tartu–Hong_Konghttp://blog.wikimedia.fi/2013/08/wikimaps-around-the-world/http://blog.wikimedia.fi/2013/08/wikimaps-around-the-world/http://wmfi.muistio.tieke.fi/8http://wmfi.muistio.tieke.fi/8http://sk53-osm.blogspot.fi/2013/08/history-workshop-at-sotmbaltics.htmlhttp://sk53-osm.blogspot.fi/2013/08/history-workshop-at-sotmbaltics.html

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Damages by bombing in Tartu, 1941

infrastructural elements that are gone from maps, but are actually there – strategical objects from Soviet era maps

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Wikimaps roundtable in WikimaniaAugust 7, Hong Kong

Open Historical Map code sprintAugust 10 & 11, USA

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Wikimaps workshop in State of the Map BalticsAugust 4, Tartu, Estonia

Wikimaps roundtable in WikimaniaAugust 7, Hong Kong

Open Historical Map code sprintAugust 10 & 11, USA

http://osmlab.github.io/birthday-sprint/http://osmlab.github.io/birthday-sprint/

MapBox OSM Japan

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikimaps

http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikiprojekti_Historialliset_kartat

https://www.facebook.com/groups/wikimaps/

Susanna Ånäs, Wikimedia Suomisusanna.anas@wikimedia.fi, @susannaanas, @WMFinland