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

Sun Apr 14 18:05:48 UTC 2013

Mikel - your typing is atrocious! ; ) But, your presentation is hot stuff!
I love it!!!

Team - this is fantastic, exactly the type of stuff I think will be
critical to showing historical mapping in action - the complete workflow of
raster to vector for old stuff. we're tracking down some old aerials here
in the pac nw, as well.

Shenkar & team - any thoughts on storage? I'm slowly, but surely, cobbling
together some storage space, but have been a little sidetracked lately. The
machine that's almost ready has 6TB of space.

I like the kickstarter idea - I think if we can get 1 sample up and
running, it would go a long way

Thanks, Jeff

On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Steve Doerr <doerr.stephen at gmail.com>wrote:

>  Can I just say that Thomas Bodley would no doubt be most distressed to
> be confused with his namesake, Thomas Bodely!
>
> Steve
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> On 05/04/2013 16:28, Andy Robinson wrote:
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>  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.****
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> Useful to know about your Bodelian experience.****
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> Cheers****
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> Andy****
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> *From:* Mikel Maron [mailto:mikel_maron at yahoo.com <mikel_maron at yahoo.com>]
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> *Sent:* 05 April 2013 16:20
> *To:* Steve Doerr; Historic at openstreetmap.org; Talk-GB at openstreetmap.org
> *Subject:* Re: [OHM] Fwd: [Talk-GB] Aerial Photographs****
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> 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).****
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> Did a short presentation on this a couple weeks ago.****
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> http://files.groundtruth.in/presentations/geodc-historic/#17****
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> 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.****
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> 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.*
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> -Mikel****
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> * Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron****
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> *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****
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> Given the 'historic' nature of this material, I thought I would copy this
> here.
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> Steve****
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> *Subject: *
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> [Talk-GB] Aerial Photographs****
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> *Date: *
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> Fri, 5 Apr 2013 10:54:04 +0100****
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> *From: *
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> Andy Robinson <ajrlists at gmail.com> <ajrlists at gmail.com>****
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> *To: *
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> <Talk-GB at openstreetmap.org> <Talk-GB at openstreetmap.org>****
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> Folks,****
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> Sheffield University has some surplus aerial imagery that could be available****
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> to us if we wish to have it. Its described as a considerable collection****
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> (amounting to around 6 filling****
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> cabinets) of UK (mostly England, and mainly northern England) black & white****
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> 9" x 9" photographic prints, dating from around WWII to the early 1980s.****
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> There are a few index sheets, many of the boxed sets are labelled.****
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> I've asked for some more details so that we might consider storage****
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> requirements (They are currently temporarily stored in a garage but need to****
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> be in a dry low humidity room really) and should get some photos of what it****
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> all looks like in the next few days.****
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> In the meantime two questions for UK OSMers:****
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> 1. Do you think this is a resource that we should go for and build upon as a****
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> sub-project within OSM?****
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> 2. How should we best deal with physical storage until such time as items****
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> can be digitised. The question about what to do with documents (same applies****
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> to all the map sheets I have) after digitising can be left till a later****
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> date.****
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> I'm less worried about scanning and managing the files now as I have****
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> sufficient scanning equipment to cover most bases and disk space attached to****
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> an OSM sever doesn't appear to be an issue. We would need to come up with****
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> tools and methods of turning them into a seamless mosaic but I'm sure given****
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> the task there's a workable solution for that too.****
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> All thoughts, suggestions and offers welcome.****
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> Cheers****
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> Andy****
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