[Talk-GB] 1:25,000 OOC OS maps - Update

[Andy Robinson]

I'd like to organise a "scanning party". One weekend soon. Need to raise
about £200ish to rent the large scanner and then with a few others to create
a good workflow spend a couple of days one weekend scanning all the sheets.
If anyone is interested in helping let me know and I'll propose some dates.
After that my plan would be to get the scans up on the OSM dev box and have
someone help with a little extra code to help with the rectification
process. This should help speed everything up.

Cheers
Andy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Collinson [mailto:mike at ayeltd.biz]
> Sent: 22 October 2011 14:51
> To: talk-gb at openstreetmap.org
> Cc: Andy Robinson
> Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] 1:25,000 OOC OS maps - Update
> 
> Just catching up so a late posting. Thanks to Andy and Mike for this.
> Even with Bing imagery and OS OpenData, the 1:25k series are a great
source
> of local names in rural areas and of historic features, (archeological
sites,
> tumuli, stone rings, battle fields, roman roads, old mining sites and
more) for
> a historical map of the UK that is slowly evolving thanks to Graham Jones.
> 
> My personal wish-list to see soon: anything up the northern Pennines and
> Yorkshire, Durham mining areas.
> 
> Mike
> 
> On 27/08/2011 20:41, Andy Robinson wrote:
> > As many may know I've been collecting OS 1:25k provisional edition map
> > sheets for the last few years. I'd got to around a third of the set of
> > 2027 sheets before the summer. As a result of a very generous donation
> > from the University of Glasgow (Thanks go to Mike Shand) I now have
> > 66% of the full set. In addition I have many different sheet editions
> > for the north of the country and Scotland and a great many duplicates,
> > some of which will be sold to help raise funds to secure the remaining
> > 1/3rd of the set that are still needed for full coverage.
> >
> > I've now finished cataloguing the provisional series maps from
> > Glasgow, over
> > 1850 sheets in all, and you can find the updated table and graphical
> > chart showing coverage from the links at:
> > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Provisional/First_Edition
> >
> > The next job will be to restart rectification and tiling to enable
> > their use in the OSM editing tools and other purposes. Because of the
> > sudden influx I'm looking at possibilities of scanning off site and
> > distributing the rectification process, all suggestions and offers on
> > that would be most appreciated.
> >
> > Ping me if you have any questions or have an area of coverage you
> > would particularly like to see available soon.
> >
> > You can see the current tiled sheets at:
> > http://ooc.openstreetmap.org/?zoom=6&lat=53.96418&lon=-
> 3.92646&layers=
> > 000B0
> >
> > Cheers
> > Andy
> >
> 
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