Check with Pitt Brigade about former locations map

[theryankelly]

[theryankelly]

https://github.com/openpgh

[mrengy]

What specifically do we want to know about pittsburgh's former locations map? I could look into this if it's still relevant.

[mrengy]

I heard back from Christian Gass with the Pittsburgh brigade about their related project. Here was his response.

We’re just in the early stages of a “Landmarks That Have Departed” database and map, inspired by a local documentary entitled “Stuff That’s Gone”. We’ve had a couple of coffee meetings so far to define scope and work plan a bit. You can see our working data model concept and data entry questions here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14JtvHoKmjXTvapPqOBnRywATbQbaKhnSp0lavJ2OlwE/edit?ts=573bc17f. Please feel free to take it and run with it. We’re curious also to see how others might approach this.

That’s all we have so far. The eventual goal is to have a map that the public can contribute to, which will also give driving directions using references to stuff that’s gone. Once we get some code down we’ll of course be happy to share it.