[OSM-talk] New Popular Edition maps, and postcode collection

[lars]

David Sheldon wrote:
> As some of you already know, we've been working with scans of the
> 1930s/40s OS maps from the New Popular Edition. 
> 
> We have tiles of all of the England and Wales, and have put them up on 
>  http://www.npemap.org.uk

Great work!  But the map doesn't come out quite as detailed as I 
had hoped and it looks a little unsharp.  In particular the 
sharpness seems to vary with folds and bends in the map, e.g.
http://www.npemap.org.uk/tiles/map.html#323,206,1
http://www.npemap.org.uk/tiles/map.html#495,123,1

What technology did you use to digitize the map?  Did you document 
the process?

Sorry, I don't want to "rain on your parade".  I have dreamt of 
doing something similar, but never got out of my chair.  I have 
scanned an encyclopedia, but left out some of the maps.



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  Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
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