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OpenHistoryMap
itWikiCon 2020
2020-10-25
OpenHistoryMap – L’associazione
Aim: The creation of a toolchain and toolset to teach history with
modern Web-GIS tools.
Secondary aims: Create a series of tools to facilitate the work for
the people who create the data (researchers, archaeologists, historians)
Intro
Intro
• Representation of history
• Problems with detail
• Problems with depth of analysis
• Problems with vicinity
• Problems with structure
• Problems with technology
• Diachronic historical research
was invented by Thomas
Jefferson for the analysis of
native americans
Two orders of problems
Back then, that
was all
countryside…
1588, Braun and
Hogenberg, Civitates
Orbis Terrarum, map
IV-49
State of the Art
Wikipedia
• Scans
• Thematic maps
• Political maps
• Strange projections
• Customized designs
• Not unifom
• Not translateable
William Robert Shepherd - Source: This image is a copy or a derivative work of british_isles_802.jpg, from the map
collection of the Perry–Castañeda Library (PCL) of the University of Texas at Austin. This tag does not indicate the
copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more
information. Originale: Shepherd, William R. (1926) Historical Atlas, Category:New York: Henry Holt and Company
Wikidata
ID Wikidata
• Point data
• Often marginal
• Various representations of
concepts
• Not always coherent
Academia
•Data
precision
Analysis Area
breadth
Analysis
period breadth
1588, Braun and
Hogenberg, Civitates
Orbis Terrarum, map
IV-49
1835, Catasto Gregoriano, Vaticano
Information Architecture
OHM Objects
• Every object
• Category
• Name
• Wikidata Ref.
• Valid from Date
• Valid to Date
• Source(name, reference, id, doi,
link)
• Other specific tags
• Geometries
Similarly to OSM we map
phisical objects, dissimilarly we
map also concepts (battles,
troops, legions, ships, people) in
order to give a historical and
spatial context.
Data reliability
• Reliability
• Primary Source
• Dig
• Field research
• Secondary Source
• Reliable historic source
• Review research
• Tertiary Source
• Oral tradition
• Fonte storica poco affidabile
The same object can be
described by different sources in
different ways
Data reliability
• Reliability
• Primary Source
• Dig
• Field research
• Secondary Source
• Reliable historic source
• Review research
• Tertiary Source
• Oral tradition
• Fonte storica poco affidabile
Non-academic education
Academia, bibliographies
Software architecture
Totally open source Platform
• Code on GitHub - https://github.com/openhistorymap
• Python, TypeScript
• Images on DockerHub -
https://hub.docker.com/orgs/openhistorymap
• docker-compose installable on docker-swarm infrastructure
• Code under BSD
• Data under CC-0 license (which is CC-BY-0 for source analysis
purposes.)
PostGIS
Map.openhistorymap.org
Importer
& Bot
Tileserver
Reconciler
digitizer.openhistorymap.org cleanup.openhistorymap.org
TaxonomyDigitizer
Docker
Coordinator
Vectorizer Merger Referencer
PostGIS
Map.openhistorymap.org
Importer
& Bot
Tileserver
Reconciler
digitizer.openhistorymap.org cleanup.openhistorymap.org
TaxonomyDigitizer
Docker
Coordinator
Vectorizer Merger Referencer
DB
The database contains information
considering all levels of detail for the
geometries:
Low zoom levels will use low detail
polygons while high zoom levels have
higher detail polygons
Based on layer, information density
(ohm_to), geometry type and zoom level
the initialization prepares the partitioning
configuration of postgres autonomously.
id
ohm_from
ohm_to
layer
Properties
Author
hash
Item
Hash
minzoom
zoom
Geom
Geom_type
geometries
-8000 -7000 -6000 -5000 -4000 -3000 -2000 -1000 0 1000 2000
-8000 -7000 -6000 -5000 -4000 -3000 -2000 -1000 0 1000 2000
-8000 -7000 -6000 -5000 -4000 -3000 -2000 -1000 0 1000 2000
-8000 -7000 -6000 -5000 -4000 -3000 -2000 -1000 0 1000 2000
-8000 -7000 -6000 -5000 -4000 -3000 -2000 -1000 0 1000 2000
-8000 -7000 -6000 -5000 -4000 -3000 -2000 -1000 0 1000 2000
-8000 -7000 -6000 -5000 -4000 -3000 -2000 -1000 0 1000 2000
-8000 -7000 -6000 -5000 -4000 -3000 -2000 -1000 0 1000 2000 P1
P2
P3
P4
P5
P6
P7
P8
Items
P1
P2
P3
P4
P5
P6
P7
P8
Geometries
0-2
I punti sono punti…
Point *
3-4
5-6
7-8
9-11
12-14
15-18
20-25
P1
P2
P3
P4
P5
P6
P7
P8
Geometries
0.8GB
150MB
Point *
1GB
1GB
1GB
1.2GB
2GB
2GB
2GB
Vectorizer
https://github.com/nypl-spacetime/map-vectorizer
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2534931.2534932
Docker image for ancient map vectorization
Vectorizer
1588, Braun and
Hogenberg, Civitates
Orbis Terrarum, map
IV-49
1835, Catasto Gregoriano, Vaticano
1835, Catasto Gregoriano, Vaticano
The Results
Days in WWII
Dati: Progetto THOR
English french and
nederland ships – 1700-
1800 – Dati CLIWOC15
The travels of the Endeavor,
di James Cook– Dati
CLIWOC15
https://map.openhistorymap.org
https://map.openhistorymap.org
Siate clementi, è un solo server,
pagato dal presidente al team di
sviluppatori…
Future development
External editor
• Tool for educators
• Enabling the creation of visualizations based on already available data
• Give the possiblility to add new data
• Help reconciling the already present data
Wikipedia Integration
• Embed of the map
• Specific relations to show
Time Series
• Reference: Wikidata ID
• Reconciliation
• Sources:
• Madison Project
• Global Price Income History
• Integration tools
• R Plugin for data import
Historillary (Historical Mapillary)
• Photography was created in 1800
• Before we have views, chinas, paintings
• The idea is to map anything, keeping in mind the quality in time
and space.
3DModelCommons
• FOSS4G2018
«Given the bounding box, the POIs are
loaded (like in most GIS applications) and
the models are loaded and positioned»
Thanks!
Marco.montanari@openhistorymap.org
Grazie soprattutto ai miei archeologi preferiti:
Silvia Bernardoni, Lucia Marsicano, Raffaele Trojanis

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