<p>The Welsh government is much better in its approach to open licensing content than the UK's. I have Wikipedia contacts who talk to the former at the highest level, if an introduction is needed. </p>
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Andy Mabbett<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Jul 13, 2013 7:15 PM, "Barnett, Phillip" <<a href="mailto:PHILLIP.BARNETT@itn.co.uk">PHILLIP.BARNETT@itn.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">There’s a National Library of Wales too, also with a large map collection … No idea about their access policy though.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> 13 July 2013 18:19<br>
<b>To:</b> Rob Nickerson<br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:historic@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">historic@openstreetmap.org</a>; <a href="mailto:talk-gb@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">talk-gb@openstreetmap.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Talk-GB] Historic Maps - Can you help?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p>I've used the NLS maps a lot and wish there were more maps from England available. Obviously this isn't a priority for them but would happily help in anyway I can. I have looked at their online georeferencer but almost all are done.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p>It's a shame the English equivelant aren't as open.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 13 Jul 2013 12:51, "Rob Nickerson" <<a href="mailto:rob.j.nickerson@gmail.com" target="_blank">rob.j.nickerson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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I have been speaking with the National Library of Scotland (NLS) about their large collection of historic maps. Currently they provide a online collection of historic maps as set out on their website [1]. Some of these are georeferenced and can be used in OSM
[2]. There is lots more left to scan and georeference!! (Not all of them are Scotland maps, in fact there are many non-UK maps too).<br>
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Question: Is anyone interested in helping georeference historic maps? The process is quite simple - NLS will do the scanning for us, we just need to follow the georeferencing guide [3] using a suitable piece of software such as QGIS (free).
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If you are interested in helping, what maps would you like to see? I am thinking maybe detailed Town Plans*, but we could also look at some emerging places maps (e.g. Antarctica).<br>
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Rob<br>
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*) Some Scottish Town Plans have already been scanned and just need georeferencing:
<a href="http://maps.nls.uk/towns/index.html" target="_blank">http://maps.nls.uk/towns/index.html</a><br>
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[1] <a href="http://maps.nls.uk/" target="_blank">http://maps.nls.uk/</a><br>
[2] <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/National_Library_of_Scotland" target="_blank">
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[3] <a href="http://geo.nls.uk/urbhist/guides_georeferencing.html" target="_blank">
http://geo.nls.uk/urbhist/guides_georeferencing.html</a><u></u><u></u></p>
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