[OSM-talk] Fwd: Out of Copyright Maps - ABC London

[Thomas Wood]

Fw to list.

On 10/18/07, Patrick Weber <p.weber at ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I thought some might find this useful, I have georeferenced the detailed
> London Streetmaps called ABC London from 1933 . I have done parts of
> South London so far, and have used them to quickly digitise some areas
> using potlatch's Yahoo Aerial Imagery Layer.
>
> I have put them online at the following address:
> http://www.spatialknowledge.eu/ABCAtlas/openlayers.html
>

Very nice, the rectification is a bit wobbly in places.

>
> I wondered, how can I with OpenLayers overlay the OSM Mapnik/OSMArender
> Layer on top of these maps, and add transparency ?
>
> Cheers
>
> Patrick

To add an OSM layer over the top, they will all have to use the same
projection. I have no idea what yours is, but the OSM one is a
mercator  projection.

It would be nice to have these tiles as a WMS service for use in JOSM.


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Regards,
Thomas Wood
(Edgemaster)