Yes, all Open. It's great. In terms of how we could use it here in the UK, the best data I can think of is the OS Town Plans for Scotland that NLS have as individual map sheets and as a slippy map:
http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=19&lat=57.14443&lon=-2.1054&layers=B000000000FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF There is also some great London data: http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=19&lat=51.52008&lon=-0.12473&layers=B000000000FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF We have a pretty good relation with NLS. Is there any interest in our community to enquire about working with them? Rob On 30 April 2014 15:46, Tim Waters <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Rob, > > it has been on the list before - but they have recently revamped it and > added many more features, and maps! In my opinion it's a shining example of > how geo crowdsourcing applications should be. > > I believe it has been developed internally with the library - and I think > they are just using Mapbox to host the tiles (originally coming from the > warper at maps.nypl.org) > > The code is on github: https://github.com/NYPL/building-inspector and the > data is available to download as well. > http://buildinginspector.nypl.org/general/data > > Cheers, > > Tim > > > On 29 April 2014 22:44, Rob Nickerson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Don't think I've spotted this on the historic mailing list so I'll post >> it. >> >> NYPL digitizing old maps using crowd sourcing. I just gave it a go and it >> works very well. >> >> http://buildinginspector.nypl.org/ >> >> Looks like Mapbox has some involvement, or at least the map display has a >> similar style to mapbox's. I wonder whether the software is open as we can >> use this to help OpenHistoricMap. >> >> Rob >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Historic mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/historic >> >> >
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