[Talk-GB] Historic Maps - Can you help?

[Steven Horner]

I've used the NLS maps a lot and wish there were more maps from England
available. Obviously this isn't a priority for them but would happily help
in anyway I can. I have looked at their online georeferencer but almost all
are done.

It's a shame the English equivelant aren't as open.

Steven
 On 13 Jul 2013 12:51, "Rob Nickerson" <rob.j.nickerson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I have been speaking with the National Library of Scotland (NLS) about
> their large collection of historic maps. Currently they provide a online
> collection of historic maps as set out on their website [1]. Some of these
> are georeferenced and can be used in OSM [2]. There is lots more left to
> scan and georeference!! (Not all of them are Scotland maps, in fact there
> are many non-UK maps too).
>
> Question: Is anyone interested in helping georeference historic maps? The
> process is quite simple - NLS will do the scanning for us, we just need to
> follow the georeferencing guide [3] using a suitable piece of software such
> as QGIS (free).
>
> If you are interested in helping, what maps would you like to see? I am
> thinking maybe detailed Town Plans*, but we could also look at some
> emerging places maps (e.g. Antarctica).
>
> Regards,
> Rob
>
> *) Some Scottish Town Plans have already been scanned and just need
> georeferencing: http://maps.nls.uk/towns/index.html
>
> [1] http://maps.nls.uk/
> [2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/National_Library_of_Scotland
> [3] http://geo.nls.uk/urbhist/guides_georeferencing.html
>
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