Hello, I fwd this to maps-l because I believe mapstory.org is really interesting to showing developments on OpenStreetMaps inside Wikipedia.

At Wikimania we talk also about how we can bring history more in the focus of OSM, so promoting the "start_date"[1] for buildings would be a good start.

Greetings Kolossos

[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:start_date

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: creating a MapStory Labs project Datum: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 18:13:30 -0500 Von: Nitin Gadia nittyjee@gmail.com Antwort an: Wikimedia Labs labs-l@lists.wikimedia.org An: labs-l@lists.wikimedia.org Kopie (CC): Christopher Tucker christopher.tucker@gmail.com Newsgruppen: gmane.org.wikimedia.labs

Hello,

We recently attended Wikimania in Washington DC, where we met Erik Möller http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_M%C3%B6ller, who showed us Wikimedia Labs, telling us it would be a good fit. We're interested in helping create a Wikimedia Labs project around serving /mapstories/. A mapstory is a type of map that shows change over time, which is, like wikipedia or openstreetmap (OSM, www.openstreetmap.org http://www.openstreetmap.org), being developed in an online community built on the same standards of openness, at /www.mapstory.org/ http://www.mapstory.org. We are aware that wikimedia and openstreetmap (OSM) are collaborating to serve OSM data through wikimedia to be seen on wikipedia articles, and would love to do the same. MapStory is inspired by both openstreetmap and wikipedia, and is being built on the same standards of openness, and intends to be yet another companion in the open knowledge community, and is to be governed in similar ways by the MapStory Foundation. At the moment, MapStory is invitation-based, as it is being developed, but it will be fully open to anyone's registration.

Examples of mapstories include: *Events: Yellowstone Fire: http://mapstory.org/maps/149 *Trends: Population Growth: http://mapstory.org/maps/162 *General historical change: Africa: http://mapstory.org/maps/153, walmart: http://mapstory.org/maps/60, NYC subway: http://mapstory.org/maps/117/view *Large scale mapstories - some mapstories will be enormous, allowing you to eventually type in a time, and see the way the world was then. So, a user might type in "1900", and see all the roads, buildings, land use, and landscape down to very local levels, like you can with OSM now.

The integration of mapstories into wikipedia and other wikimedia projects would be extremely fruitful. I can imagine that any article about political entities, events, and statistics can, and probably will, have a mapstory. I'll reply to this message with some examples in a moment. * What do we need to do in order for us to establish a MapStory labs project, or add ourselves to an existing one? *Unfortunately, I am not a developer myself, but we can at least get started while the developers crank out the core mapstory functionality.

I've cc-ed Christopher Tucker, the founder of MapStory. Please reply-all if you can :)

Thanks, Nitin Gadia Ames, Iowa, USA MapStory Foundation /www.mapstory.org/ http://www.mapstory.org