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

[Jez Nicholson]

Nice. I'm thinking about a subset query of
http://openplaques.org/places/gb/areas/london/plaques to only include
people who specifically lived in London at that time, or who were alive.

On Tue, 27 Oct 2015 at 17:55 SK53 <sk53.osm at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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