[Openstreetmap] 1930s street map of London

Lester Caine lester at lsces.co.uk
Sun Mar 27 15:30:34 BST 2005


Richard Fairhurst wrote:

> I've completed scanning an ABC street atlas of London dating from 
> 1933/34... which places it nicely out of copyright.
And later than maps I already have on a historic project I'm playing with.

> For the next couple of days, you can download a .zip at 
> http://www.systemeD.plus.com/ . There's only enough bandwidth allocation 
> for five downloads a day, so if you can mirror it and post the URL here, 
> that'd be appreciated. :-)
I've pinched a copy and will host it here.

> The archive is 43Mb and contains 31 scans in JPEG format, plus an index 
> image. There are no restrictions as to what you do with it.
The first derivative is already up ;)
http://home.lsces.co.uk/Maps/London1933

Now I just have to work out how to get the tiles to work with MapServer ;)

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