Blog posts tagged whosonfirst
Browsing the SFO Museum Aviation Collection Through Real Time Flight Data
We’ve created a map-based interface that shows real time (or more specifically real time -ish since there is a delay) flights as they are traveling to and from SFO, inside North America. For each of those flights we know the airline servicing the flight, and both its origin and destination airport. As a flight is updated we plot its location on a map and display a popup with a random object, for each facet, from the SFO Museum Aviation Collection. When you click on an object its dedicated web page on the collection.sfomuseum.org website will be opened in a new tab.
This is a blog post by aaron cope. It was published on March 23, 2023 and tagged whosonfirst, flightdata, golang, webassembly and wasm.
The Airport is the Museum - An Experimental Wayfinding Service for SFO Museum
Today we are releasing an experimental web-based wayfinding service for SFO Museum. Using this service you can ask for directions between two “waypoints” at SFO.
This is a blog post by aaron cope. It was published on February 14, 2023 and tagged whosonfirst and wayfinding.
The Case of the Missing (Istanbul) Airport
On the surface this is a blog post documenting the steps to add a new record (an airport) to a catalog of geographic places (the sfomuseum-data-whosonfirst GitHub repository). Scratching the surface, though, it’s really a blog post about how SFO Museum supplements and extends the Who’s On First to meet the needs of our online efforts.
This is a blog post by aaron cope. It was published on August 01, 2022 and tagged whosonfirst and golang.
Geotagging at SFO Museum: Protomaps, search and reverse-geocoding
The bad news is that, when you look closely, there really are that many moving pieces when it comes to something like geotagging photos. The good news is that nearly all of those moving pieces, from the underlying data to the tools to operate on those data, are within the reach of cultural heritage as low-cost and open-source alternatives to the commercial offerings. We may still need to stitch those pieces together to meet the needs of a specific institution but at least they are within reach now.
This is a blog post by aaron cope. It was published on May 03, 2021 and tagged golang, geotagging, whosonfirst, geocoding, reverse-geocoding, placeholder and maps.
Geotagging at SFO Museum, Part 7 – Custom Writers
In order to support SFO Museum’s use case we would need to bundle all of the code required to implement the steps described above with the go-www-geotag application. That’s a lot of functionality that which not germane to another user of the application. It’s also, potentially, a lot of code that SFO Museum may not want or be able to share publicly. It’s a scenario that would have to be repeated for every custom writer adding unnecessary complexity and size to the final geotagging application.
This is a blog post by aaron cope. It was published on May 01, 2020 and tagged sfo, collection, geotagging, whosonfirst and golang.
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.
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.
Using the Placeholder Geocoder at SFO Museum
This is a long and technical blog post. The short version is: It is now easy, possible and inexpensive to install and operate a “coarse” geocoding service, with global coverage, support for multiple languages and stable permanent identifiers using openly licensed data, both locally and in ☁️ the cloud ☁️. We’ve made some additional tools to complement this reality and waded through some of the muck of modern software development so you don’t have to.
This is a blog post by aaron cope. It was published on November 04, 2019 and tagged aws, geo, geocoding, pelias, placeholder, sfo and whosonfirst.
Harvey Milk Plane Has a Permalink – Updated flight data at SFO Museum
If you had told me that a little over two weeks of data would have yielded almost 1,400 unique airplanes I would have been surprised. I am surprised.
This is a blog post by aaron cope. It was published on May 17, 2019 and tagged sfo, whosonfirst, opendata, airplanes, airlines and flightdata.