Mapping Museum Content
MW2009 Afternoon Session
16 Apr 2009 14:00
Application of Geographic Information Systems
"If you don't know where you are, you don't know who you are." --Wendell Berry
Place is as important as who and when.
"Waverly from South 13th St facing East" poses problems for geocoding.
Name changes are also an issue. Historic Street Name Index.
Error reports contributed by users.
1926 -- Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition -- temporary streets for exposition.
Initially developed before Google Maps.
Users often type in addresses into keyword searches. Now they use: address, keywords, topics, time period, collections, advanced.
What about a radius (box) search around a given address? Year ranges as well?
Fulfillment of photos?
Experimenting with RSS and GeoRSS.
Each month 2,000 photos added to site.
Allows bookmarking.
Does it allow any sort of tagging or comments?
Mobile technologies. http://mobile.phillyhistory.org
Added historic maps of Philly.
Added photos of murals treating the location as an asset rather than an individual photo and tying the photos to the asset.
Google Street View. Have to move around a lot to get a good view of the mural and save it. New API forthcoming to allow one to specify particular locations and angle views.
Doesn't seem to support tabbed browsing very well.
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Interpretation of Bias and the Bias of Interpretation
Flickr
Naming places gets tricky.
3B photos. 110M geocoded.
Geocoding (string to lat/long)
Reverse geocoding. Take a lat/long and get the name of the location. What neighborhood would be nice. Not easy.
Project: nearby (radio geocoding).
WhereOnEarth -- lists administrative zones on Earth.
Corrections project. 100,000 in the first week.
Open Street Maps (Buenos Aires) can work with Flickr
Clustr tool is an open source project to work with arbitrary sets of points using Alpha Shapes (ie scoop out the ice cream, leaving the chips)
Donut holes
EC2 -- on-demand virtual server
ws-clustr client/server software
py-wsclustr
Placeography
The MN Hist Soc has the largest coll in the univ of MN
Psychosynthrography