Hi All, I have been speaking with the National Library of Scotland (NLS) about their large collection of historic maps. Currently they provide a online collection of historic maps as set out on their website [1]. Some of these are georeferenced and can be used in OSM [2]. There is lots more left to scan and georeference!! (Not all of them are Scotland maps, in fact there are many non-UK maps too).
Question: Is anyone interested in helping georeference historic maps? The process is quite simple - NLS will do the scanning for us, we just need to follow the georeferencing guide [3] using a suitable piece of software such as QGIS (free). If you are interested in helping, what maps would you like to see? I am thinking maybe detailed Town Plans*, but we could also look at some emerging places maps (e.g. Antarctica). Regards, Rob *) Some Scottish Town Plans have already been scanned and just need georeferencing: http://maps.nls.uk/towns/index.html [1] http://maps.nls.uk/ [2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/National_Library_of_Scotland [3] http://geo.nls.uk/urbhist/guides_georeferencing.html
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