[OSM-talk] AfricaMap

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 06:30:31PM +0100, John McKerrell wrote:
> 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:

They're likely going to be using TileCache and Spherical Mercator, based
on my current understanding of the project, so tiles should be available
and reusable within Potlatch if they end up going that route. 

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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