[Talk-GB] 'Romantic London' - reusing Horwood's 1790's map

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I suspect that the BL use Klokan <http://www.klokantech.com/>'s tools,
rather than the NYPL MapWarper stack which is what is on Wikimedia.

Jerry

On 27 October 2015 at 17:02, Dan S <danstowell+osm at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2015-10-27 14:40 GMT+00:00 Richard Symonds <
> richard.symonds at wikimedia.org.uk>:
> > This is excellent - but didn't the NLS do something similar not long ago?
>
> You mean this?
> http://maps.nls.uk/view/102342014#zoom=6&lat=2270&lon=3124&layers=BT
> If so, I can't find a way to switch quickly between OSM-vs-old.
> Perhaps it's not georeferenced. Also their maps are later, so
> "Bencroft's Alms Houses" had already become "Bancroft's Hospital" ;)
>
> I know the British Library had that crowdsourcing map-warper project,
> too. Not sure if there's a slippy-map as with Horwood's - anyone?
>
> Dan
>
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