On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:22:25 +0100 Michael Collinson <m...@ayeltd.biz> wrote:
> Dear Keith, > > I found your Roman road maps > http://keithbriggs.info/Roman_road_maps.html and greatly enjoyed looking > at them. Thank you for making them available. > > I wonder if you would be willing to share the coordinate data used to > map the roads? I am an OpenStreetMap contributor > http://www.openstreetmap.org . I also have an interest in mapping UK > roman roads and historic mining sites so that anyone can make specialist > maps from the data. One resource the project has developed is the > ability to trace directly from out-of-copyright Ordnance Survey maps. I > am using this but it is a slow business and we cannot use anything > published later than the 1950s (crown copyright is 50 years). > > You can see our progress here: http://maps3.org.uk/tiles/historic.html > Roman roads are marked in blue. All the underlying data is publicly > available from the project's database. > > I am also cc'ing Mick who has an independent interest in the same area. > > Regards, > Mike > > Michael Collinson > > PS Just reading http://keithbriggs.info/Bayes_placenames-2.html . It is > fascinating. > > I have my 'close approximation' digitisation of Keith Briggs full map of roads and places as separate MapInfo layers I could send you although I am a bit concerned about copyright, Briggs seems to have worked from a book by Margary that was published in 1957 so is still under copyright. If needed I know I could convert it to ESRI shape file, think I can convert to OSM XML file too but I'd need to research that one. I have been using Bill Thayer's Lacus Curtius site http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Great_Britain/_Periods/Roman/home.html It seems to be down right now, it seems to do that every holiday weekend. let me know mick _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk