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.
Map updates, 2019 - 2020
We’ve updated the historical aerial maps section of the Mills Field website to include imagery from 2019. We’ve also made some user interface and user experience changes to the map to improve its use on small and mobile sized devices.
This is a blog post by aaron cope. It was published on January 10, 2020 and tagged maps and history.
go-iiif version 2.1
Longer-term, and importantly, it also means the workflows we develop aren’t inextricably bound to Amazon services. Knowing that we don’t have to use AWS and knowing that there is an alternative avenue for accomplishing the same work in the future, should we ever need it, goes a long way towards making it easier for us to want to use AWS in the present.
This is a blog post by aaron cope. It was published on December 05, 2019 and tagged aws, golang and iiif.
go-iiif version 2.0
I am happy to announce that go-iiif version 2.0 has been released. The biggest change in this release is that go-iiif no longer requires the libvips image processing library, by default. As of version 2.0 go-iiif can do all its image processing using native (Go) code. The absence of external dependencies means that go-iiif tools can be compiled in to standalone applications that can be run even if Go isn’t installed on the same computer.
This is a blog post by aaron cope. It was published on November 13, 2019 and tagged golang and iiif.
More recent old maps (and the shapes in the details)
Wandering around the airport at high zoom levels, seeing the “shape” of airport in its details, is so much fun we’ve added a handy 📷 button to the map that will allow you to create an image of whatever you happen to be looking at.
This is a blog post by aaron cope. It was published on November 06, 2019 and tagged history, maps, rasterzen, sfo and whosonfirst.