[OSM-talk] IoW: New Popular Edition orthorectified

[SteveC]

* @ 04/05/06 03:31:22 PM mikel_maron at yahoo.com wrote:
> Awesome. 
> I'd like to make this available as a layer in the editing applet. 
> Wondering now how to quickly get this served up by mapserver for WMS access...

Should be able to make a tileindex and hook mapserver up (google
tileindex mapserver, its in the manual). Problem will be OSGB ->
mercator

> 
> -Mikel
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemeD.net>
> To: talk at openstreetmap.org
> Sent: Thursday, May 4, 2006 2:56:01 PM
> Subject: [OSM-talk] IoW: New Popular Edition orthorectified
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Thanks to Laurence Penney, we now have orthorectified tiles of the  
> scanned New Popular Edition Isle of Wight sheet.
> 
> Since it's orthorectified, and the map is out of copyright, you can  
> trace to your heart's content, use it as a base layer, or whatever you  
> like. Each tile is 1km x 1km on the familiar Ordnance Survey National  
> Grid.
> 
> There's a web interface here:
> http://www.lorp.org/maps/?e=449&n=094&z=2
> 
> or you can download all the tiles in a .zip:
> http://www.lorp.org/maps/osmor/180.zip
> 
> Thus far, the map has been corrected using four anchor points (i.e.  
> one at each corner of the map). Inevitably the fluctuations in the  
> scan are sometimes a bit more uneven than that, and we'd be interested  
> to hear feedback on how much of a problem this is for any proposed uses.
> 
> cheers
> Richard
> 
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have fun,

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