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

[Jeff Meyer]

Apologies to Shekhar for messing up his name - mea culpa! Jeff

On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Jeff Meyer <jeff at gwhat.org> wrote:

> 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.****
>>
>> Useful to know about your Bodelian experience.****
>>
>> ** **
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>> Cheers****
>>
>> Andy****
>>
>> ** **
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>> *From:* Mikel Maron [mailto:mikel_maron at yahoo.com <mikel_maron at yahoo.com>]
>>
>> *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.****
>>
>> http://files.groundtruth.in/presentations/geodc-historic/#17****
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>> ** **
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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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>> ** **
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>> -Mikel****
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>> ** **
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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****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Given the 'historic' nature of this material, I thought I would copy this
>> here.
>>
>> 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****
>>
>> to us if we wish to have it. Its described as a considerable collection****
>>
>> (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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>> ** **
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>> 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****
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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****
>>
>> 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****
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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****
>>
>> Andy****
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