Geotagging at SFO Museum, Part 5 – Images

If the go-www-geotag application is designed to be agnotic to the details of any one user’s data sources how does it know where to find and load the images it’s meant to geotag? Isn’t this exactly the problem I described in the first post in this series, a scenario where the go-www-geotag application is required to know about an infinite number of image sources? Rather than trying to support a potentially infinite list of image sources we’ve decided to require the use of the oEmbed standard as the means by which images are identified and loaded in to the application.

This is a blog post by aaron cope. It was published on April 29, 2020 and tagged sfo, collection, geotagging, oembed and iiif.

Geotagging at SFO Museum, Part 4 – Search

But what if you want to center the map on a different place and don’t already know its latitude and longitude coordinates? What if you need to jump around to a bunch of different places all over the world?

This is a blog post by aaron cope. It was published on April 28, 2020 and tagged sfo, collection, geotagging, placeholder and search.

Geotagging at SFO Museum, Part 3 – What Is the Simplest Thing?

I call this the “building with two-by-fours” stage of development to highlight the importance of not just building things quickly but equally being able to disassemble and rearrange them just as easily. Sometimes this happens at the expense of elegance and finish but that doesn’t diminish their importance or a commitment to address those things.

This is a blog post by aaron cope. It was published on April 27, 2020 and tagged sfo, collection, geotagging and golang.

Geotagging at SFO Museum, part 2 – First Steps

In the end we may deploy this application for staff as a hosted website on the internet but we would like to have the ability and the flexibility for staff to also run the application locally, from their desktop. The majority of museum staff are not developers and won’t know how or be able, or want, to install the external dependencies that might be necessary for an application written in another programming language to run.

This is a blog post by aaron cope. It was published on April 24, 2020 and tagged geotagging, sfo, collection, golang and maps.

Geotagging Photos at SFO Museum, Part 1 – Setting the Stage

This is the first of multi-part blog post (11 in all!) about geotagging photos in the SFO Museum collection. It’s also a blog post about how we’re doing that work and why we’re taking a longer road than we might otherwise to get there. Over the course of the next couple weeks we’ll post one short blog post a day focused on a specific step, or area of concern, in that process. This first blog post will set the stage and outline some of our motivations for seeing geotagging photos in our collection as a chance to address larger issues in the cultural heritage sector.

This is a blog post by aaron cope. It was published on April 23, 2020 and tagged sfo, collection, geotagging and nypl.

Airplanes and Walruses – The permanent collection of the SFO Aviation Museum and Library

A healthy slice of the permanent collection of the SFO Aviation Museum and Library is now available for browsing on the Mills Field website. This includes a little more than 23,000 object records of which 18,000 have images. This is still only a small part of the museum’s total holdings and we hope to get all, or most, of the remaining objects online shortly. Like all the images on the Mills Field website, every image from the permanent collection is “zoomable”.

This is a blog post by aaron cope. It was published on March 25, 2020 and tagged sfo, collection and zoomable.

Past flight data at SFO and SFO Museum (2006 - 2018)

Today we’re happy to announce the availability of historical flight data in and out of SFO for the years 2006 through 2018. That brings the total number of flights published to just under 4.9 million!

This is a blog post by aaron cope. It was published on March 20, 2020 and tagged sfo, faa, flightdata, history, opendata, airplanes, airlines and airports.

Zoomable” images at SFO Museum

In the future we’ll do another more technical blog post about how the image tiling works but today’s post is about celebrating the ability to “wander around” an image, to get up close and enjoy its details.

This is a blog post by aaron cope. It was published on February 03, 2020 and tagged sfo, iiif and zoomable.

Flight data at SFO and SFO Museum – 1.17 million flights later

These data aren’t necessarily interesting in the moment. These data become interesting over time when there are a lot of them to corral in to unexpected patterns and the proverbial shape of the elephant. Their value comes from being able to look back and see things the then-present never imagined. The challenge when you want to look back at past data is often that no one thought it worthwhile to collect at the time or to give a safe and patient home where the future might find it in the…well, future.

This is a blog post by aaron cope. It was published on January 24, 2020 and tagged sfo, opendata, flightdata, whosonfirst, airplanes, airlines and airports.