[Talk-GB] UK war office maps of Africa digitised

[Jez Nicholson]

Here's my first go at the Kilamanjaro map
http://mapwarper.net/maps/12352#Preview_Map_tab

On Sun, 31 Jan 2016 at 20:43 SK53 <sk53.osm at gmail.com> wrote:

> There is/was a mapwarper instance for wikimedia. I don't have the details
> to hand, but perhaps Tim Waters will be able to tell us.
>
> I think the problem with older maps of Africa and Asia is that a lot more
> has changed than in Britain in the same period.
>
> The set of maps which BL has digitised which I'd be very interested in are
> city insurance maps. Certainly Leicester, Nottingham & Belfast are covered.
> As far as I know these have not been made available on wikimedia.
>
> Jerry
>
> On 31 January 2016 at 20:04, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Andy Mabbett wrote:
>> > David Woolley wrote:
>> > > Are you really asking if anyone is prepared to fund the tile server,
>> > > and donate time to any georeferencing needed?
>> > I'm asking what the *potential* is for that, or any other necessary
>> > steps, to be done.
>>
>> For individual sheets like this, I think Mapwarper (mapwarper.net) is
>> going
>> to be your best bet. It's not the sort of task that's well suited to the
>> techcentric skillset of OSM Operations (by which I mean Grant :) ) and I'd
>> be surprised if there were any local chapters willing to take it on,
>> though
>> you could try HOT, perhaps.
>>
>> But at heart - if you'd like to get some of these rectified, load them
>> into
>> Mapwarper and have a play! And if you find it works, then you can recruit
>> more people to the cause.
>>
>> cheers
>> Richard
>>
>>
>>
>>
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