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

[Andy Mabbett]

The Welsh government is much better in its approach to open licensing
content than the UK's. I have Wikipedia contacts who talk to the former at
the highest level, if an introduction is needed.

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Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
On Jul 13, 2013 7:15 PM, "Barnett, Phillip" <PHILLIP.BARNETT at itn.co.uk>
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>   There’s a National Library of Wales too, also with a large map
> collection … No idea about their access policy though.****
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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?****
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> 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.****
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> It's a shame the English equivelant aren't as open.****
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> On 13 Jul 2013 12:51, "Rob Nickerson" <rob.j.nickerson at gmail.com> wrote:**
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> Hi All,
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> 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).
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> 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).
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> 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).
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> Regards,
> Rob
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> *) Some Scottish Town Plans have already been scanned and just need
> georeferencing: http://maps.nls.uk/towns/index.html
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> [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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