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

[Barnett, Phillip]

There’s a National Library of Wales too, also with a large map collection … No idea about their access policy though.

http://www.llgc.org.uk/index.php?id=introduction3

Phillip




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From: Steven Horner [mailto:steven at stevenhorner.com]
Sent: 13 July 2013 18:19
To: Rob Nickerson
Cc: historic at openstreetmap.org; talk-gb at openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Historic Maps - Can you help?


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><mailto: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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