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

[Tim Waters]

Hi folks,

I'm the developer of mapwarper.net and the wikimaps (wikimedia) warper
http://warper.wmflabs.org/ also.

The wikimaps warper is part of the Wikimaps project
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikimaps lead by Susanna Anas

I'll explain some of the differences.

Mapwarper.net is designed for individuals with a handful of maps. Basically
the server (a dedicated server) has limited disk space, and its filling up,
so it's not meant for institutions with really large collections.  Users
can upload maps, and stitch them together with other maps from other users.
The maps can add quite a lot of metadata with the maps.
The copyright of the maps is with the map and the user agrees that they are
allowed to upload them. There's no easy way to batch upload maps.

Wikimaps Warper http://warper.wmflabs.org/ uses Wikimedia Commons as the
source of the maps. It's on the wikimedia labs infrastructure so disk space
is much less of an issue.
Users cant upload their own maps.
Ground control points can be uploaded in batch form and per map, and
downloaded per map.
There is an embedded iD editor which talks to the OpenHistoricalMap.org API
Whole wiki categories of maps can be imported at once. Only a category can
be mosaiced together. Metadata is kept on Commons. To add a map to the
warper, the map page in the wiki needs the Map template (
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Map ).
Then a button is shown on the page to add it to the warper (see examples on
the project page)
When the map has been warped in the wikimaps warper, the wiki page is
edited to update the bounding box and the warped status.

I think these maps have the Map template, but they may need the "warped"
parameter added to them.

Regards,

Tim





On 31 January 2016 at 20:42, 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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