[Historic] More old maps on ooc.openstreetmap.org

[Jeff Meyer]

Lars - thanks for the great links.
I think these examples highlight some general questions of how to digitize
& abstract the information in maps like these (and say, Sanborn Fire
Insurance Maps). OpenLayers is cool, but having people convert them into
OSM-style data would be even cooler, no? (Maybe not! I think this is an
interesting discussion item).
Does anyone have any experience designing the process/operations or
budgeting around this - either for OpenLayers or OSM conversion?
- Jeff


On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se> wrote:

> The old British "New Popular Edition" (NPE) topographic maps
> are available on http://ooc.openstreetmap.org/
> (OOC is short for out-of-copyright)
>
> Some old Swedish maps have been scanned by Stockholm University,
> http://kartavdelningen.sub.su.**se/kartrummet/kartskapet.htm<http://kartavdelningen.sub.su.se/kartrummet/kartskapet.htm>
>
> I asked OSMF before how we can get these Swedish maps on the
> zoomable OpenLayers platform, but nothing happened.
> If somebody can do this conversion for money, I think we have
> a good chance to get that money (how much?) from the Swedish
> chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation.
>
>
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>   Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
>   Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se
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