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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi Mikel, should have some more info on the Sheffield holding (photos and description) either over the w/e or in a weeks time. I’m expecting them to be mostly boxed sets and the coverage mainly focussed on northern England.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Useful to know about your Bodelian experience.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Cheers<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Andy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Mikel Maron [mailto:mikel_maron@yahoo.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> 05 April 2013 16:20<br><b>To:</b> Steve Doerr; Historic@openstreetmap.org; Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [OHM] Fwd: [Talk-GB] Aerial Photographs<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>Amazing. Sounds like a similar cache to what's held at Bodelian in Oxford. This collection of images was acquired by RAF over British Colonies, and other nations, in order to make ordnance survey maps. There's over 500K images there. I've explored it once, and found/scanned/composited/georeferenced/tiled Nairobi from 1961. As it was just 50 years, it was out of copyright (copyright in the case of these images is presumably owned by the country they were acquired in, even if they were then a colony).<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.5pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.5pt;color:black'>Did a short presentation on this a couple weeks ago.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.5pt;color:black'><a href="http://files.groundtruth.in/presentations/geodc-historic/#17">http://files.groundtruth.in/presentations/geodc-historic/#17</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>My thinking around next step was something like a Kickstarter to do 10 more global, out of copyright cities, and build a site to start distributing and promoting the imagery.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>It's really amazing stuff, a time machine. Excited to see what's in the Sheffield cache. Also, we might be able to ask for guidance on storage from the Bodelian, they were very helpful when I was working with the archive.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>-Mikel<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>* Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div><div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><hr size=1 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> Steve Doerr <<a href="mailto:doerr.stephen@gmail.com">doerr.stephen@gmail.com</a>><br><b>To:</b> "<a href="mailto:Historic@openstreetmap.org">Historic@openstreetmap.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:Historic@openstreetmap.org">Historic@openstreetmap.org</a>> <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, April 5, 2013 6:08 AM<br><b>Subject:</b> [OHM] Fwd: [Talk-GB] Aerial Photographs</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div id=yiv779395032><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>Given the 'historic' nature of this material, I thought I would copy this here.<br><br>Steve<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'><br><br>-------- Original Message -------- <o:p></o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0><tr><td nowrap valign=top style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right'><b>Subject: <o:p></o:p></b></p></td><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal>[Talk-GB] Aerial Photographs<o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td nowrap valign=top style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right'><b>Date: <o:p></o:p></b></p></td><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal>Fri, 5 Apr 2013 10:54:04 +0100<o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td nowrap valign=top style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right'><b>From: <o:p></o:p></b></p></td><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal>Andy Robinson <a href="mailto:ajrlists@gmail.com" target="_blank"><ajrlists@gmail.com></a><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td nowrap valign=top style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right'><b>To: <o:p></o:p></b></p></td><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank"><Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org></a><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><pre style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>Folks,<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre style='background:white'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>Sheffield University has some surplus aerial imagery that could be available<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>to us if we wish to have it. Its described as a considerable collection<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>(amounting to around 6 filling<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>cabinets) of UK (mostly England, and mainly northern England) black & white<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>9" x 9" photographic prints, dating from around WWII to the early 1980s.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>There are a few index sheets, many of the boxed sets are labelled.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre style='background:white'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>I've asked for some more details so that we might consider storage<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>requirements (They are currently temporarily stored in a garage but need to<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>be in a dry low humidity room really) and should get some photos of what it<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>all looks like in the next few days.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre style='background:white'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>In the meantime two questions for UK OSMers:<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre style='background:white'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>1. Do you think this is a resource that we should go for and build upon as a<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>sub-project within OSM?<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>2. How should we best deal with physical storage until such time as items<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>can be digitised. The question about what to do with documents (same applies<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>to all the map sheets I have) after digitising can be left till a later<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>date.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre style='background:white'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>I'm less worried about scanning and managing the files now as I have<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>sufficient scanning equipment to cover most bases and disk space attached to<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>an OSM sever doesn't appear to be an issue. We would need to come up with<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>tools and methods of turning them into a seamless mosaic but I'm sure given<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>the task there's a workable solution for that too.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre style='background:white'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>All thoughts, suggestions and offers welcome.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre style='background:white'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>Cheers<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>Andy<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre style='background:white'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre style='background:white'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>Talk-GB mailing list<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre style='background:white'><span style='color:black'><a href="mailto:Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre style='background:white'><span style='color:black'><a href="http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb">http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb</a><o:p></o:p></span></pre><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white'><span style='color:black'><br>_______________________________________________<br>Historic mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Historic@openstreetmap.org">Historic@openstreetmap.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/historic" target="_blank">http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/historic</a><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><hr size=1 width="100%" noshade style='color:#A0A0A0' align=center></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>No virus found in this message.<br>Checked by AVG - <a href="http://www.avg.com">www.avg.com</a><br>Version: 2013.0.3267 / Virus Database: 3162/6224 - Release Date: 04/04/13<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>