[Talk-GB] Hand-drawn OS maps on Wikimedia Commons

[SK53]

I think what is best is a 'world file'. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_file.

I dont quite know what technology wikimedia are using, but there are some
experienced wikimedians in the OSM community: Susanna Anas from Helsinki
has been driving a lot of activity about using old maps from GLAMs
(Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums). Obviously there is a need to
store geolocation metadata with maps on wikimedia, but it's not obvious to
me how this is done at the moment.

Jerry


On 30 September 2013 23:10, Andrew Gray <andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk> wrote:

> Hi Steven,
>
> The short answer is not quite sure - I bodged these together from a
> couple of CSV metadata sheets. I think they've been exported from
> something else to get to this stage but I don't have access to that
> (though I could ask). Do you have an example of the kind of
> metadata/formatting you would need?
>
> (I mostly lurk on this mailing list; not a very active OSM/digital
> cartography type, so may be missing something obvious here)
>
> Are the KMZ/KML files from the BL sufficient? This is the same
> metadata & same files (give or take a bit of cleaning up) so should
> match directly.
>
> Andrew.
>
> On 29 September 2013 17:20, Steven Horner <steven at stevenhorner.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> Corner coordinates are now displaying, allowing these to be aligned &
> >> adjusted to fit. Have fun!
> >>
> >
> > Are the configuration files available already somewhere or is there a
> plan
> > to make them available so users of the maps could just load the maps
> rather
> > than having to align themselves with the given coordinates.
> >
> > I have just aligned about half a dozen of the maps using MAPC2MAPC and
> the
> > coordinates posted but it's a long job to do the whole 200 files. Happy
> to
> > post the files somewhere of the ones I have done.
>
>
>
> --
> - Andrew Gray
>   andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk
>
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