Hi Susanna - This sounds like a great project!
Much of what you're describing sounds similar to the workflow we're thinking about here on the OHM list - digitize & georeference old maps, and then translate that data into OSM-style vector information for rendering of historic-based tiles, give t, x, y, and z. Have you given any thought to using OHM as a part of your workflow? If not, how could we make it appealing and usable for your goals? - Jeff On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Susanna Ånäs <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Everyone! > > My name is Susanna Ånäs and I am active in the Finnish Wikimedia. We have > a cooperation project going with the Finnish National Archives with their > historical maps and this has given us the opportunity to look anew at the > Wikimaps environment. > http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikiprojekti_Historialliset_kartat/In_english > > Wikimaps was introduced as a concept by Maarten Dammers > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Multichill/Wikimaps > . The idea is to combine environments in Wikimedia to form a maps > environment for scanned (historical) maps. I introduced the idea at > GLAM-Wiki in London and I have my presentation slides on Sideshare at > http://www.slideshare.net/susannaanas/glam-wiki-wikimaps > . > > A test environment is planned to be put up for testing for the Amsterdam > Hackathon http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Amsterdam_Hackathon_2013, more > info to follow. We'll put up a Wikimaps page in > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikimaps > and gather material there (Feel free to start, I have not yet had the > time :) > > Join the discussion about the project on [email protected] list! > > Nice to know all of you! > > Best regards, > Susanna Ånäs > User:Susannaanas > > _______________________________________________ > 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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