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

[Tim Waters]

Hi folks,

so after a fix was applied to the Wikimaps Warper the collection of
581 maps from Wikimedia Commons was re-imported and added to a mosaic
(layer)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:War%20Office%20Archive%20%E2%80%93%20British%20East%20Africa

The mosaic:
http://warper.wmflabs.org/layers/4

The Tiles link is http://warper.wmflabs.org/layers/tile/4/{z}/{x}/{y}.png
and the WMS details can be found at
http://warper.wmflabs.org/layers/4#Export_tab

and of course individual maps have their own WMS and Tiles endpoints too

Cheers,

Tim

p.s. Note that loading up a map for the first might take a once only
period of a couple of minutes as the map gets requested from commons
and is loaded up in the warper ... you should see a progress bar in
that case!

p.p.s. There's an issue with the warper not getting the correct
thumbnail for some of the maps, but it shouldn't affect how it works
in the warper.

On 2 February 2016 at 13:58, Jez Nicholson <jez.nicholson at gmail.com> wrote:
> The export tab http://warper.wmflabs.org/maps/629#Export_tab includes a WMS
> link "for JOSM OpenStreetMap Editor"
>
> I haven't tried it yet as my company have firewalled the office with an
> https whitelist.
>
> On Mon, 1 Feb 2016 at 17:34 Andy Mabbett <andy at pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>> On 1 February 2016 at 13:02, Tim Waters <chippy2005 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Great stuff. I think a few hundred maps (if not all) from this
>> > collection
>> > are already in the wikimaps warper.
>> > However there was an issue with making a mosaic (stitched layer) for the
>> > category, so this will be fixed soon.
>>
>> Once that's done, how can people see the layer in JOSM?
>>
>> > I think the British Library also has control points for the maps which
>> > could
>> > be added to the warper when ready (I'd have to double check on this
>> > point
>> > though).
>>
>> My contact tells me they (BL & Indigo Trust) want to see the maps
>> reused; if there's a speciific request, I can forward it to them.
>>
>> --
>> Andy Mabbett
>> @pigsonthewing
>> http://pigsonthewing.org.uk