Comments on: Proposal for THATCamp Project: SF Bay Area

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Wed, 22 Dec 2010 19:15:11 +0000

[…] super excited to have a couple of projects underway, including one with the fine folks from THATCamp Bay Area, along with another one with some crazy-cool filmmakers I met at the Los Angeles Idea Project […]

By: Jon Voss

Jon Voss — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 23:19:51 +0000

Adding to the potential tools list, here’s a good one riffed from @BurritoJustice and Chris Speed, let’s use the source code from Walking Through Time and overlay historical Sanborn maps on the Dogpatch neighborhood for an iPhone app. This will require identifying Sanborn maps we can use (we can tap our friends at SFPL I’m sure), possibly doing some stitching and georeferencing for the Sanborns, then having some people familiar enough with coding iPhone apps and/or interested to learn on any of these steps.

Then from there, we can see about building some web layers with different parts of Dogpatch history!

By: Jon Voss

Jon Voss — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 21:38:46 +0000

Thanks Jon C! Also, as I dig just a little bit into Dogpatch history, I love the idea of looking at that neighborhood and the various layers of visualization and presentation we can get into! Here's a great history: http://pier70sf.org/dogpatch/DogHistSig.htm

By: Jon Christensen

Jon Christensen — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 21:28:59 +0000

Count me in. This is very much in concert with work that I’d really like to see move forward in the Bay Area on a number of fronts. And it would be great to start somewhere with such a great group of collaborators.

By: Jon Voss

Jon Voss — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 21:17:12 +0000

I think required reading for this project is Rebecca Solnit's Infinite City. And there are a couple of fantastic talks coming up as part of a series our friends at SFMOMA have been doing around this: http://www.sfmoma.org/events/1756. Let's decide the date and place at our next f2f meeting December 15th, 10am, Cafe La Boheme in the Mission. For those that can't make the meeting, we'll have plenty of other ways to engage on this. OpenStreetMap and Google Earth/Maps/etc API's are other great tools to add to our list to learn/use. We should see what sources we can tap for archival video/photos/labor history, etc.

By: John C. Fox

John C. Fox — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 21:51:45 +0000

Hi Jon:

Thanks for the kind words. I definitely agree that there should be a series of building events where we can spend time with some of the many tools and technologies available. I’m looking forward to getting together on December 15th at La Boheme in the Mission so we can get the ball rolling.

In terms of tools, I think MemoryMiner would be an extremely useful tool. This post talks about some of the ways it’s been used in academic and institutional settings.

www.memoryminer.com/blog/?p=213

In terms of a date, I second the motion for a Saturday in February.

Best,

John

By: Jon Voss

Jon Voss — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 23:47:34 +0000

I think this is a fantastic idea. But I think that rather than preparing everything before hand and bringing things in for a show and tell, this could be a fantastic opportunity to actually learn and use a variety of tools around a particular theme, so that we end up with an actual result at the end of the day. This is of the One Week l One Tool idea and could be a bit more inclusive. I really like focusing on Dogpatch and I’m happy to help find a location in the area with good wifi and comfortable environs. Maybe we could start listing some tools, data sources, etc that could be used and that people would be interested to learn. Also, let’s start narrowing in on a date… how about a Saturday in February?