<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hi All, Historic Map folks,<br><br></div>I have now heard from Chris at National Library of Scotland (NLS). He is very supportive* of the idea of using something similar to the NYPL Building Inspector software and website for digitizing some of NLS's historic maps. As NYPL have made all their software Open Source, it should be relatively easy to roll this out with NLS's (or other) maps.<br>
<br></div>Who's interested in getting involved? You lot set the pace of this :-D<br><br>Regards,<br>Rob<br><div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">* NLS would be able to supply the scanned and geo-rectified maps. As with everyone else their ability to do any more is limited by their level of funding. This should not be a problem as we can self host the website.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 May 2014 14:15, Rob Nickerson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rob.j.nickerson@gmail.com" target="_blank">rob.j.nickerson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">The OS National Grid 1:2500 series includes addresses but is only just coming out of copyright. I have access to a slippy map with a few sheets scanned but they look like they're too recent and still in copyright.</p>
<p dir="ltr">It's Chris Fleet at NLS that we need to speak to. He's spoken at sotm Scotland in the past. I'll follow it up with the Scotland group.</p><span class=""><font color="#888888">
<p dir="ltr">Rob</p></font></span><div class=""><div class="h5">
<div class="gmail_quote">On 3 May 2014 00:09, "Tim Waters" <<a href="mailto:chippy2005@gmail.com" target="_blank">chippy2005@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">Those are some good examples - they appear to be around the same scale also. <div>They are monochrome and don't have addresses which should limit a couple of the types of the tasks. Could be worth trying the Building Inspector with this dataset.<div>
<br><div>I wonder if there's anyone from the NLS on list?</div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 1 May 2014 19:11, Rob Nickerson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rob.j.nickerson@gmail.com" target="_blank">rob.j.nickerson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Yes, all Open. It's great.<br><br></div>In terms of how we could use it here in the UK, the best data I can think of is the OS Town Plans for Scotland that NLS have as individual map sheets and as a slippy map:<br>
<br><a href="http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=19&lat=57.14443&lon=-2.1054&layers=B000000000FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF" target="_blank">http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=19&lat=57.14443&lon=-2.1054&layers=B000000000FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF</a><br>
<br></div>There is also some great London data:<br><br><a href="http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=19&lat=51.52008&lon=-0.12473&layers=B000000000FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF" target="_blank">http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=19&lat=51.52008&lon=-0.12473&layers=B000000000FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF</a><br>
<br></div>We have a pretty good relation with NLS. Is there any interest in our community to enquire about working with them?<span><font color="#888888"><br><br></font></span></div><span><font color="#888888">Rob<br>
</font></span></div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 30 April 2014 15:46, Tim Waters <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chippy2005@gmail.com" target="_blank">chippy2005@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Rob,<div><br></div><div>it has been on the list before - but they have recently revamped it and added many more features, and maps! In my opinion it's a shining example of how geo crowdsourcing applications should be.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I believe it has been developed internally with the library - and I think they are just using Mapbox to host the tiles (originally coming from the warper at <a href="http://maps.nypl.org" target="_blank">maps.nypl.org</a>) <br>
</div><div><br></div><div>The code is on github: <a href="https://github.com/NYPL/building-inspector" target="_blank">https://github.com/NYPL/building-inspector</a> and the data is available to download as well. <a href="http://buildinginspector.nypl.org/general/data" target="_blank">http://buildinginspector.nypl.org/general/data</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Tim</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On 29 April 2014 22:44, Rob Nickerson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rob.j.nickerson@gmail.com" target="_blank">rob.j.nickerson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Don't think I've spotted this on the historic mailing list so I'll post it.<br>
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</div>NYPL digitizing old maps using crowd sourcing. I just gave it a go and it works very well.<br><br>
<a href="http://buildinginspector.nypl.org/" target="_blank">http://buildinginspector.nypl.org/</a><br><br></div><div>Looks like Mapbox has some involvement, or at least the map display has a similar style to mapbox's. I wonder whether the software is open as we can use this to help OpenHistoricMap.<span><font color="#888888"><br>
</font></span></div><span><font color="#888888"><div><br></div>Rob<br></font></span></div>
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