[Talk-GB] [OHM] New York Public Library - Building Inspector

[Rob Nickerson]

Correction: I don't mean OS Country series (that seems to be older and
probably now out of copyright). What I really mean is OS National Grid
1:2500 series, which can be seen at:
http://maps.warwickshire.gov.uk/historical/

Rob


On 3 May 2014 14:15, Rob Nickerson <rob.j.nickerson at gmail.com> wrote:

> The OS County series includes addresses but is only just coming out of
> copyright. I have access to a slippy map with a few sheets scanned but they
> look like they're too recent and still in copyright.
>
> It's Chris Fleet at NLS that we need to speak to. He's spoken at sotm
> Scotland in the past. I'll follow it up with the Scotland group.
>
> Rob
> On 3 May 2014 00:09, "Tim Waters" <chippy2005 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Those are some good examples - they appear to be around the same scale
>> also.
>> They are monochrome and don't have addresses which should limit a couple
>> of the types of the tasks.  Could be worth trying the Building Inspector
>> with this dataset.
>>
>> I wonder if there's anyone from the NLS on list?
>>
>>
>> On 1 May 2014 19:11, Rob Nickerson <rob.j.nickerson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Yes, all Open. It's great.
>>>
>>> In terms of how we could use it here in the UK, the best data I can
>>> think of is the OS Town Plans for Scotland that NLS have as individual map
>>> sheets and as a slippy map:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=19&lat=57.14443&lon=-2.1054&layers=B000000000FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
>>>
>>> There is also some great London data:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=19&lat=51.52008&lon=-0.12473&layers=B000000000FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
>>>
>>> We have a pretty good relation with NLS. Is there any interest in our
>>> community to enquire about working with them?
>>>
>>> Rob
>>>
>>>
>>> On 30 April 2014 15:46, Tim Waters <chippy2005 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Rob,
>>>>
>>>> it has been on the list before - but they have recently revamped it and
>>>> added many more features, and maps! In my opinion it's a shining example of
>>>> how geo crowdsourcing applications should be.
>>>>
>>>> I believe it has been developed internally with the library - and I
>>>> think they are just using Mapbox to host the tiles (originally coming from
>>>> the warper at maps.nypl.org)
>>>>
>>>> The code is on github: https://github.com/NYPL/building-inspector and
>>>> the data is available to download as well.
>>>> http://buildinginspector.nypl.org/general/data
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Tim
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 29 April 2014 22:44, Rob Nickerson <rob.j.nickerson at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Don't think I've spotted this on the historic mailing list so I'll
>>>>> post it.
>>>>>
>>>>> NYPL digitizing old maps using crowd sourcing. I just gave it a go and
>>>>> it works very well.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://buildinginspector.nypl.org/
>>>>>
>>>>> Looks like Mapbox has some involvement, or at least the map display
>>>>> has a similar style to mapbox's. I wonder whether the software is open as
>>>>> we can use this to help OpenHistoricMap.
>>>>>
>>>>> Rob
>>>>>
>>>>> _______________________________________________
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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