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klokan commented on Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History oldmapsonline.org/en/hist... · Posted by u/agilek

egorfine · a year ago

Hi! It's done beautifully but there are some... inconsistencies.

Is there a process to provide feedback and correct errors on the map?

klokan · a year ago

Yes! Please just use the "Feedback" button on the side of the interface - after you zoom the map and select time - then you can annotate, and it gives us most relevant context to your feedback

klokan commented on Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History oldmapsonline.org/en/hist... · Posted by u/agilek

jaysonelliot · a year ago

Excellent UI and very fun to explore, although North America is conspicuously blank before 1607. Hopefully more sources can be added to this to fill that out.

klokan · a year ago

Thanks. Great to hear that you like the user interface...

It is indeed super hard to collect or create better data. We were considering cooperation with indigenous lands non-profit https://native-land.ca/ that would be amazing! Do you know of a better source?

If you have tips for how to improve or data - please - post it via "Feebdack" button on the edge of the website for area and selected time...

To make this project well is super hard.

klokan commented on Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History oldmapsonline.org/en/hist... · Posted by u/agilek

MiklerGM · a year ago

Cool, I wish the project all the best! Making an interactive historical atlas is a great idea but the path is not an easy one.

We did a similar project and closed it about 5 years ago https://maps.chron.ist/

Had multiple iterations, and put a lot of effort into finding and drawing the maps. Later we found some support from the community and they promised to provide us with verifiable and trusted map sources...

The source code is available here https://github.com/chronhq

klokan · a year ago

Wow - have not seen this one yet. Looks great!

klokan commented on Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History oldmapsonline.org/en/hist... · Posted by u/agilek

klokan · a year ago

Hi HN! I’m Klokan, one of the creators of TimeMap. It’s exciting to see this project here — thank you for the interest and support!

We just launched TimeMap on Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/timemap If you find what we’re building valuable, an UPVOTE there would mean a lot.

Stanford University recently hosted an event to introduce TimeMap to the world, which you can check out here:

* Recording on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZspMtwYI98

* Event page: https://events.stanford.edu/event/the-future-of-history-disc...

The talk dives into how TimeMap was built, including our use of Linked Data, OpenHistoricalMaps, LLM pre-processing, indexing algorithms, and more. It also highlights amazing partner projects like Pelagios, TimeMachine, and our amazing partner institutions such as the David Rumsey Map Collection, British Library, ETH Zurich and many others.

TimeMap has been a dream project of mine for years — I’m thrilled to see it coming to life and would love to hear your thoughts or feedback!

For context: I’m also the founder of OpenMapTiles.org, a MapLibre.org board member, author of GDAL2Tiles, and contributor to other open-source projects. Currently, I’m serving as the CEO of MapTiler.com.

Looking forward to the discussion, and thank you for taking the time to check this out!

klokan commented on Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History oldmapsonline.org/en/hist... · Posted by u/agilek

mavhc · a year ago

https://www.openhistoricalmap.org/ is the OSM like version

klokan · a year ago

The TimeMap is in fact loading the data from OpenHistoricalMap on the deep zoomlevels (streets) so if you edit OpenHistoricalMap roads and houses it will be displayed there.

See Lille for example - and play with timeline here:

https://www.oldmapsonline.org/en/history/regions#position=13...

You will see directly how the town center has developed, fortifications, railways or highway... damn cool! :-)

klokan commented on Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History oldmapsonline.org/en/hist... · Posted by u/agilek

CrociDB · a year ago

Thanks, I just spent two hours exploring the history of Europe while I should really be working.

klokan · a year ago

Yeh. We have made it... in such case the project has successfully addictive UX :-)

klokan commented on Maplibre: community-driven Mapbox GL fork maplibre.org/... · Posted by u/klokan

klokan · 5 years ago

Open-source mapping libraries for developers using JavaScript, Android, iOS and more...

klokan commented on Mapbox-gl-js is no longer under the 3-Clause BSD license github.com/mapbox/mapbox-... · Posted by u/tuukkah

lukeqsee · 5 years ago

> To me that sound like while I can still use my own map tiles, it would still costs the same as if I used Mapbox hosted tiles.

That's my reading of it, as well. Even though it's somewhat expected on the data collection side, it's decidedly unexpected that they not only require ToS acceptance, but also licensing fees for what used to be entirely free, OSS software.

> Hopefully the OSS community can maintain a fork of the 1.x codebase.

I'm sure this will happen. My company is trying to get some consensus around the best way to proceed. Email in bio if you're interested in taking part!

klokan · 5 years ago

The https://github.com/openmaptiles/gl-js proposed as the primary shared repo for an open-source fork of the Mapbox GL JS 1.x codebase.

Let's set autobuild of documentation, packages and configure CI on pull requests. Pull requests, forks & contributions welcome - as on other parts of the https://openmaptiles.org/ project providing free and open-source vector tiles of entire world for self-hosting.

klokan commented on Vector tiles in QGIS 3.14 maptiler.com/news/2020/06... · Posted by u/vami

klokan · 6 years ago

Vector base maps for the entire world - with one click in QGIS - all in vectors for any place you choose.

This practically means printing OpenStreetMap in PDF in vectors - and beautiful native maps for your next GIS project.