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

[Jez Nicholson]

I tinkered with the "Kilimanjaro to Tsavo Stn. U.R.. WOOS-8-3-1" map a fair
bit. Started by using recognisable locations (features on lakes, etc.) but
eventually settled on tagging the grid lines and using online conversion
tools to give me the WGS-84. The ones with hills in look great in Google
Earth, e.g. http://warper.wmflabs.org/maps/629.kml Difficult to get the map
spot on.

On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 at 16:28 Tim Waters <chippy2005 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
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