Mikel: Yes, thanks for mentioning the aerial photo cache at the Bodlein in Oxford.
We in Topomancy had been in touch with Paolo Paron (cc-ed here) for the past few years who wanted to get this data online for doing historical mapping.
I hope Paolo can subscribe to this list and let us know his latest on this collection.
Best, Shekhar On Friday 05 April 2013 08:49 PM, Mikel Maron wrote:
Amazing. Sounds like a similar cache to what's held at Bodelian in Oxford. This collection of images was acquired by RAF over British Colonies, and other nations, in order to make ordnance survey maps. There's over 500K images there. I've explored it once, and found/scanned/composited/georeferenced/tiled Nairobi from 1961. As it was just 50 years, it was out of copyright (copyright in the case of these images is presumably owned by the country they were acquired in, even if they were then a colony). Did a short presentation on this a couple weeks ago. http://files.groundtruth.in/presentations/geodc-historic/#17 My thinking around next step was something like a Kickstarter to do 10 more global, out of copyright cities, and build a site to start distributing and promoting the imagery. It's really amazing stuff, a time machine. Excited to see what's in the Sheffield cache. Also, we might be able to ask for guidance on storage from the Bodelian, they were very helpful when I was working with the archive. -Mikel * Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *From:* Steve Doerr <[email protected]> *To:* "[email protected]" <[email protected]> *Sent:* Friday, April 5, 2013 6:08 AM *Subject:* [OHM] Fwd: [Talk-GB] Aerial Photographs Given the 'historic' nature of this material, I thought I would copy this here. Steve -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Talk-GB] Aerial Photographs Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2013 10:54:04 +0100 From: Andy Robinson <[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]> Folks, Sheffield University has some surplus aerial imagery that could be available to us if we wish to have it. Its described as a considerable collection (amounting to around 6 filling cabinets) of UK (mostly England, and mainly northern England) black & white 9" x 9" photographic prints, dating from around WWII to the early 1980s. There are a few index sheets, many of the boxed sets are labelled. I've asked for some more details so that we might consider storage requirements (They are currently temporarily stored in a garage but need to be in a dry low humidity room really) and should get some photos of what it all looks like in the next few days. In the meantime two questions for UK OSMers: 1. Do you think this is a resource that we should go for and build upon as a sub-project within OSM? 2. How should we best deal with physical storage until such time as items can be digitised. The question about what to do with documents (same applies to all the map sheets I have) after digitising can be left till a later date. I'm less worried about scanning and managing the files now as I have sufficient scanning equipment to cover most bases and disk space attached to an OSM sever doesn't appear to be an issue. We would need to come up with tools and methods of turning them into a seamless mosaic but I'm sure given the task there's a workable solution for that too. All thoughts, suggestions and offers welcome. Cheers Andy _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb _______________________________________________ Historic mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/historic _______________________________________________ Historic mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/historic
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