On 18 December 2017 at 09:05, geni <geni...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 17 December 2017 at 13:59, Fæ <fae...@gmail.com> wrote: >> All the maps can be found in sub-directories by county from Cornwall >> to Orkney at >> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ordnance_Survey_1st_series_1:10560. > > > Hmm we're going to need a new copyright tag. The images are not > faithful photographic reproductions since someone (well The Andrew W. > Mellon Foundation) has been pretty brutal with the levels. Not > original enough to qualify for copyright mind. Just wish I could get > access to the raw scans. > > -- > geni
The copyright statement seems adequate. To be a "faithful reproduction" does not require a technically fault-free reproductive process, just one where the intention is to create a reproduction. All digitizations reduce quality in some way. I agree that the levels are abrupt on the scans, but they are a usefully high resolution. It would be a great future project to use some WMF or other funding to pay for a better digitization. Fae -- fae...@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
