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

Tim Waters chippy2005 at gmail.com
Fri Feb 12 11:25:12 UTC 2016


Hi Richard,

Are you still having issues? That map appears to be okay now, last
rectified 3 days ago and was able to rectify it just now. I've a
screenshot here:
http://imgur.com/bOjMnWq  http://warper.wmflabs.org/maps/261#Preview_tab

Find me on IRC as chippy sometime if you are still encountering problems.

regards,

Tim

On 9 February 2016 at 18:44, Richard Symonds
<richard.symonds at wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
> 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
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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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