[OSM-talk] NLS Maps API - online historical mapping of Great Britain for use in mashups (fwd)

[martin dodge]

this might be of interest to some on the list.
cheers
martin

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Subject:        NLS Maps API - online historical mapping of Great Britain for
use in mashups
Date:   Mon, 10 May 2010 11:33:40 +0100
From:   Fleet, Christopher <C.Fleet at nls.uk>
To:     <maps-l at listserv.uga.edu>, <lis-maps at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>

We are pleased to launch a new historical mapping application, allowing
anyone to include selected historical geo-referenced maps of Great
Britain in their own websites. Sets of Ordnance Survey mapping relating
to Scotland, England and Wales, dating from the 1920s to 1940s, have
been seamed together and geo-referenced, then specially prepared for use
in external websites.

For more information, please view http://geo.nls.uk/maps/api/

The maps have been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution
Licence, allowing free use and adaptation of the mapping, provided it is
properly attributed. The maps were scanned and geo-referenced by the
National Library of Scotland, and rendered on the Amazon EC2 computer
cluster by Klokan Technologies GmbH, based on a customised version of
the MapTiler application.

The maps can be used for many purposes - they can be integrated with
other mapping, used for research purposes, used as a backdrop for
bespoke markers or mapping data, or used to create other copyright free
maps (such as OpenStreetMap). The application will also run on many
mobile devices, including the iPhone, iPad or Google Android based
phones.

The historical map API homepage -  http://geo.nls.uk/maps/api/  -
provides simple instructions for how to embed the mapping in websites,
and use it with the most popular free web-mapping services, including
Google, Bing, and Openlayers.

View the historical map API homepage -  http://geo.nls.uk/maps/api/  -
for more information on:

* how to display the historic map in your mobile device or phone
* how to embed the map in your website
* licence and terms of use
* what map series are used
* how the seamless map was prepared

In the future, we hope to add more mapping - of other countries, and at
more detailed scales.

We'd be very keen for any comments or feedback on this at: geo at nls.uk


Many thanks,

Chris Fleet (NLS) and Petr Pridal (Klokan Technologies GmbH)

Klokan Technologies GmbH - http://www.klokantech.com/
National Library of Scotland - online maps - http://www.nls.uk/maps


Chris Fleet
National Library of Scotland
33 Salisbury Place
EDINBURGH
EH9 1SL
United Kingdom.

Tel. 0131 623 3973
Fax. 0131 623 3971
E-mail: c.fleet at nls.uk


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