Mikel - your typing is atrocious! ; ) But, your presentation is hot stuff! I love it!!!
Team - this is fantastic, exactly the type of stuff I think will be critical to showing historical mapping in action - the complete workflow of raster to vector for old stuff. we're tracking down some old aerials here in the pac nw, as well. Shenkar & team - any thoughts on storage? I'm slowly, but surely, cobbling together some storage space, but have been a little sidetracked lately. The machine that's almost ready has 6TB of space. I like the kickstarter idea - I think if we can get 1 sample up and running, it would go a long way Thanks, Jeff On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Steve Doerr <[email protected]>wrote: > Can I just say that Thomas Bodley would no doubt be most distressed to > be confused with his namesake, Thomas Bodely! > > Steve > > > > On 05/04/2013 16:28, Andy Robinson wrote: > > Hi Mikel, should have some more info on the Sheffield holding (photos > and description) either over the w/e or in a weeks time. I’m expecting them > to be mostly boxed sets and the coverage mainly focussed on northern > England.**** > > Useful to know about your Bodelian experience.**** > > ** ** > > Cheers**** > > Andy**** > > ** ** > > *From:* Mikel Maron [mailto:[email protected] <[email protected]>] > > *Sent:* 05 April 2013 16:20 > *To:* Steve Doerr; [email protected]; [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [OHM] Fwd: [Talk-GB] Aerial Photographs**** > > ** ** > > 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]> <[email protected]>**** > > *To: * > > <[email protected]> <[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]**** > > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > > _______________________________________________ > Historic mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/historic > > **** > ------------------------------ > > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2013.0.3267 / Virus Database: 3162/6224 - Release Date: 04/04/13* > *** > > > > _______________________________________________ > Historic mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/historic > > -- Jeff Meyer Global World History Atlas www.gwhat.org [email protected] 206-676-2347 OpenStreetMap: Mapping with a Human Touch <http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/jeffmeyer> osm: Open Historical Map (OHM)<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Historical_Map> / my OSM user page <http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/jeffmeyer> t: @GWHAThistory <https://twitter.com/GWHAThistory> f: GWHAThistory <https://www.facebook.com/GWHAThistory>
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