[OSM-talk] Roman road map of Britain

[mick]

On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:22:25 +0100
Michael Collinson <mike at ayeltd.biz> wrote:

> Dear Keith,
> 
> I found your Roman road maps 
> http://keithbriggs.info/Roman_road_maps.html and greatly enjoyed looking 
> at them. Thank you for making them available.
> 
> I wonder if you would be willing to share the coordinate data used to 
> map the roads? I am an OpenStreetMap contributor 
> http://www.openstreetmap.org .  I also have an interest in mapping UK 
> roman roads and historic mining sites so that anyone can make specialist 
> maps from the data. One resource the project has developed is the 
> ability to trace directly from out-of-copyright Ordnance Survey maps. I 
> am using this but it is a slow business and we cannot use anything 
> published later than the 1950s (crown copyright is 50 years).
> 
> You can see our progress here: http://maps3.org.uk/tiles/historic.html 
> Roman roads are marked in blue.  All the underlying data is publicly 
> available from the project's database.
> 
> I am also cc'ing Mick who has an independent interest in the same area.
> 
> Regards,
> Mike
> 
> Michael Collinson
> 
> PS Just reading http://keithbriggs.info/Bayes_placenames-2.html . It is 
> fascinating.
> 
> 
I have my 'close approximation' digitisation of Keith Briggs full map of roads and places as separate MapInfo layers I could send you although I am a bit concerned about copyright, Briggs seems to have worked from a book by Margary that was published in 1957 so is still under copyright. If needed I know I could convert it to ESRI shape file, think I can convert to OSM XML file too but I'd need to research that one.

I have been using Bill Thayer's Lacus Curtius site http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Great_Britain/_Periods/Roman/home.html

It seems to be down right now, it seems to do that every holiday weekend.

let me know

mick