I think what is best is a 'world file'. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_file.
I dont quite know what technology wikimedia are using, but there are some experienced wikimedians in the OSM community: Susanna Anas from Helsinki has been driving a lot of activity about using old maps from GLAMs (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums). Obviously there is a need to store geolocation metadata with maps on wikimedia, but it's not obvious to me how this is done at the moment. Jerry On 30 September 2013 23:10, Andrew Gray <andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk> wrote: > Hi Steven, > > The short answer is not quite sure - I bodged these together from a > couple of CSV metadata sheets. I think they've been exported from > something else to get to this stage but I don't have access to that > (though I could ask). Do you have an example of the kind of > metadata/formatting you would need? > > (I mostly lurk on this mailing list; not a very active OSM/digital > cartography type, so may be missing something obvious here) > > Are the KMZ/KML files from the BL sufficient? This is the same > metadata & same files (give or take a bit of cleaning up) so should > match directly. > > Andrew. > > On 29 September 2013 17:20, Steven Horner <ste...@stevenhorner.com> wrote: > > > > > >> > >> > >> Corner coordinates are now displaying, allowing these to be aligned & > >> adjusted to fit. Have fun! > >> > > > > Are the configuration files available already somewhere or is there a > plan > > to make them available so users of the maps could just load the maps > rather > > than having to align themselves with the given coordinates. > > > > I have just aligned about half a dozen of the maps using MAPC2MAPC and > the > > coordinates posted but it's a long job to do the whole 200 files. Happy > to > > post the files somewhere of the ones I have done. > > > > -- > - Andrew Gray > andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >
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