Planning for the upcoming Public Laboratory archive

This project is being led by Jeff Warren (website, design) and Stewart Long (data preparation)

The current status is: Up and running, comment system with geolocated comments is in the pipeline. Some zoom-level issues on OpenLayers maps.

• media plan (outreach) (liz)
• printed edition (see Posters project)
• search function
• “embed”
• Reach out to people involved in mapping, for "field notes" and those who may be able to use the data.

Map Archive Outline and Backup Structure (Server and DVD)

• formats

  • http://publiclaboratory.org/wiki/map-formats

• paths

  • parent directory:
  • http://archive.publiclaboratory.org/site-name/date-year-month-day-state(or region)-city(or sub-region)-exact place name (optional)
  • example http://archive.publiclaboratory.org/cambridge/2011-6-22-massachusetts-cambridge-mit-knightcivicmediaconference/
• site root directory organization:
  • README.txt - explanatory text file
  • site-name.tif - Spherical mercator un-georeferenced Tiff image
  • site-name-geotiff.tif - GeoTIFF is a public domain metadata standard which allows georeferencing information to be embedded within a TIFF file.
  • site-name-geotiff.zip - DVDs will offer .zip compressed GeoTiffs to save disk space.
  • site-name.jpg - full-resolution JPG based on the GeoTiff
  • site-name-tms/ - a folder containing TMS folders and map tiles - TMS is a specification for storing and retrieving tiled mapping data. This will include an OpenLayers-based HTML viewer for reading/exploring it in a web browser.
  • /raw - directory of original images
  • site-name-raw.zip - archive of original images

Example root directory for DVD:

/2010-5-7-louisiana-portfourchon/2010-5-7-louisiana-portfourchon-raw.zip
/2010-5-7-louisiana-portfourchon/2010-5-7-louisiana-portfourchon.jpg
/2010-5-7-louisiana-portfourchon/2010-5-7-louisiana-portfourchon-geotiff.zip
/2010-5-7-louisiana-portfourchon/2010-5-7-louisiana-portfourchon-tif.zip
/2010-5-7-louisiana-portfourchon/2010-5-7-louisiana-portfourchon-tms/

To do

• Many/most map archive entries list a PREVIEW quality jpg in their JPG field; they ought to list a full-res JPG as generated by: http://publiclaboratory.org/wiki/gdal-commands

Contact list

• Jon Fong jfong@indiana.edu, re: Grand Isle State Park
• Don and Justin Blancher, re: Perdido Point and others
• USGS contact (via Brenda something) -- asked for formats, now we have 'em!