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

Bob Kerr openstreetmapcraigmillar at yahoo.co.uk
Sun Jul 14 09:56:31 UTC 2013


Is there a web page that gives us a list of what is left to do.

We are going to have a SOTM for Scotland in October and I would be happy to help out georeferencing the maps, I can also put it up for a SOTM-Scot project

Cheers

Bob


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 From: Steven Horner <steven at stevenhorner.com>
To: Rob Nickerson <rob.j.nickerson at gmail.com> 
Cc: historic at openstreetmap.org; talk-gb at openstreetmap.org 
Sent: Saturday, 13 July 2013, 18:18
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> 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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