[Talk-GB] NLS crowdsource projects and more OOC maps

Rob Nickerson rob.j.nickerson at gmail.com
Sat Jan 15 21:00:50 UTC 2022


Hi all,

I'm a big fan of the work of the maps team at NLS - in fact I am still
geeking out over the things they showed us in a tour during a State of the
Map Scotland many years ago! So it should be no surprise that I'm following
their website. Two interesting things from the last month:

Crowdsource project:
After the success of the GB1900 project, capturing place names and written
content from the Ordnance Survey’s 6-inch to the mile maps from 1888-1913,
NLS are planning three new collaborative transcription projects in 2022 for
people to participate in data gathering. Two for names, but the third is
tracing footpaths. Exciting stuff with the project also supporting a
machine learning programme.
https://maps_transcription_nls.mailchimpsites.com/

1971 out of copyright maps:
NLS have put online 2,332 detailed maps at scales of 1:1,250 to 1:25,000
which were published in 1971, and have therefore just come out-of-copyright.
https://maps.nls.uk/additions.html#125

Enjoy and happy mapping :-)

Thanks,
*Rob*
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