[OHM] Fwd: [Talk-GB] Aerial Photographs

[Shekhar Krishnan]

Mikel:

Yes, thanks for mentioning the aerial photo cache at the Bodlein in Oxford.

We in Topomancy had been in touch with Paolo Paron (cc-ed here) for the 
past few years who wanted to get this data online for doing historical 
mapping.

I hope Paolo can subscribe to this list and let us know his latest on 
this collection.

Best,


Shekhar


On Friday 05 April 2013 08:49 PM, Mikel Maron wrote:
> 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).
>
> Did a short presentation on this a couple weeks ago.
> http://files.groundtruth.in/presentations/geodc-historic/#17
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> -Mikel
>
> * Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron
>
>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>     *From:* Steve Doerr <doerr.stephen at gmail.com>
>     *To:* "Historic at openstreetmap.org" <Historic at openstreetmap.org>
>     *Sent:* Friday, April 5, 2013 6:08 AM
>     *Subject:* [OHM] Fwd: [Talk-GB] Aerial Photographs
>
>     Given the 'historic' nature of this material, I thought I would copy
>     this here.
>
>     Steve
>
>
>     -------- Original Message --------
>     Subject: 	[Talk-GB] Aerial Photographs
>     Date: 	Fri, 5 Apr 2013 10:54:04 +0100
>     From: 	Andy Robinson <ajrlists at gmail.com> <mailto:ajrlists at gmail.com>
>     To: 	<Talk-GB at openstreetmap.org> <mailto:Talk-GB at openstreetmap.org>
>
>
>
>     Folks,
>
>     Sheffield University has some surplus aerial imagery that could be available
>     to us if we wish to have it. Its described as a considerable collection
>     (amounting to around 6 filling
>     cabinets) of UK (mostly England, and mainly northern England) black & white
>     9" x 9" photographic prints, dating from around WWII to the early 1980s.
>     There are a few index sheets, many of the boxed sets are labelled.
>
>     I've asked for some more details so that we might consider storage
>     requirements (They are currently temporarily stored in a garage but need to
>     be in a dry low humidity room really) and should get some photos of what it
>     all looks like in the next few days.
>
>     In the meantime two questions for UK OSMers:
>
>     1. Do you think this is a resource that we should go for and build upon as a
>     sub-project within OSM?
>     2. How should we best deal with physical storage until such time as items
>     can be digitised. The question about what to do with documents (same applies
>     to all the map sheets I have) after digitising can be left till a later
>     date.
>
>     I'm less worried about scanning and managing the files now as I have
>     sufficient scanning equipment to cover most bases and disk space attached to
>     an OSM sever doesn't appear to be an issue. We would need to come up with
>     tools and methods of turning them into a seamless mosaic but I'm sure given
>     the task there's a workable solution for that too.
>
>     All thoughts, suggestions and offers welcome.
>
>     Cheers
>     Andy
>
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