[OSM-talk-be] city names - bug in OFM?

[Marc Gemis]

thanks a lot for the detailed explanation. I'll give it a try

regards

m

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Sander Deryckere <sanderd17 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Some of them are digitised, some aren't.
>
> You can go to
> http://www.kbr.be/collections/cart_plan/collections/collections_nl.html
> then under "Kadastrale plannen", click on one of the provinces (For Luik,
> click on a different, random province, for Luxembourg, there are no maps
> sadly).
>
> This opens the search website which gives you no results (but at least
> brings you to the right page). On that page, go to "Cartes et plans =
> Kaarten en plannen", and this time, click on the correct province. Then you
> see a list of municipalities (from the 19th century, with old spelling),
> sorted by arrondissement.
>
> Then you can open the scan reader by clicking on the image (not the
> title). You'll see that the map gets a copyright mark, this means that the
> map as image is protected. However, the data you can deduce from the map
> isn't altered since the creation of it (it isn't rectified nor
> georeferenced), so it's usable for OSM.
>
> As there's no export option, the easiest way to use it is to zoom in to
> certain parts, and make screenshots. I normally made 4 screenshots for a
> normal village, with a bit of overlap. However, the maps may be so skewed
> that you need to adapt the reference points depending on the part of
> boundary you're drawing.
>
> Note that not all villages are present. Sometimes you're lucky that all
> surrounding villages of a certain village are present, then you also have
> the boundaries. Other times, it might take guesswork, or using even worse
> (older) maps.
>
> Regards,
> Sander
>
> 2015-02-25 14:12 GMT+01:00 Marc Gemis <marc.gemis at gmail.com>:
>
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 4:44 PM, Sander Deryckere <sanderd17 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> In short, I used out-of-copyright Popp maps from the royal library
>>
>>
>> As a complete noob on this topic, where can I get them (going to the
>> library ? or are they already on-line somewhere ?)
>>
>> regards
>>
>> m
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