Correction: I don't mean OS Country series (that seems to be older and probably now out of copyright). What I really mean is OS National Grid 1:2500 series, which can be seen at: http://maps.warwickshire.gov.uk/historical/
Rob On 3 May 2014 14:15, Rob Nickerson <[email protected]> wrote: > The OS County series includes addresses but is only just coming out of > copyright. I have access to a slippy map with a few sheets scanned but they > look like they're too recent and still in copyright. > > It's Chris Fleet at NLS that we need to speak to. He's spoken at sotm > Scotland in the past. I'll follow it up with the Scotland group. > > Rob > On 3 May 2014 00:09, "Tim Waters" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Those are some good examples - they appear to be around the same scale >> also. >> They are monochrome and don't have addresses which should limit a couple >> of the types of the tasks. Could be worth trying the Building Inspector >> with this dataset. >> >> I wonder if there's anyone from the NLS on list? >> >> >> On 1 May 2014 19:11, Rob Nickerson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> 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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