[OSM-talk] AfricaMap

[John McKerrell]

Ben spoke at one of the evening "Bird's of a Feather" sessions about  
AfricaMap. They have various goals for the project, but the first is  
to digitise and georeference the maps of Africa that they have  
available within the Harvard vaults. He seemed very open to the idea  
of making these maps available then through WMS layers or tiles so  
that we could then derive maps from them. Andrew Turner was also there  
and fired a few questions at him. I wrote some notes about the  
discussion here:

http://blog.johnmckerrell.com/2008/05/14/where-20-africamap/

On 23 May 2008, at 17:05, Alan Millar wrote:

> I came across this recently which may be of interest to OSM  
> participants
> in Africa.
>
>  http://africamap.harvard.edu
>
> It is a project, apparently just starting, to put every available  
> map for
> Africa online in one coordinated system.
>
> I emailed Ben Lewis, the contact on the website, who said they  
> definitely
> want to work with OSM, both providing maps and images for OSM and
> incorporating OSM road data into AfricaMap.
>
> I don't know any more about it than this, but I'm just trying to let
> interested people know since I had not noticed it come up in  
> discussions
> yet.  Some of you OSM mappers in Africa may want to check it out.
>
> - Alan
>
>
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