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

[Richard Symonds]

Tim,

A lot of these maps won't rectify, even though I've completed all the
control points. The one I've just come up with is
http://warper.wmflabs.org/maps/261 - can someone try and preview it, or
tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Richard Symonds
Wikimedia UK
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On 9 February 2016 at 17:30, Jez Nicholson <jez.nicholson at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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