http://www.oldmapsonline.org/ searches across various map libraries for old georeferenced maps...
Avinash On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Sanjay Bhangar <[email protected]>wrote: > Nice maps! > > Does anyone know what the license for these maps is? > > One can use mapwarper.net to align the maps (the same tool as > maps.nypl.org/warper ), and get WMS feeds / GeoTIFF, etc. which makes > it super-easy to overlay on existing online maps, etc. once the > alignment is done. If anyone needs help with the tool, let know, have > worked with the developer, Tim Waters, and he'd be happy to chip in .. > > There is also a budding Open Historical Maps project with a mailing > list at https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/historic and some > experiments underway at http://openhistoricalmap.org . It will be > great to have more mappers from India involved in the project. > > Will be great to start having a common repository / index of indian > historical maps - once the maps are warped, there's some really fun, > beautiful possibilities for historical map visualizations .. let me > know if I can help out in any way. > > Thanks for posting these! > -Sanjay > > On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 12:54 PM, sumandro <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear Thej, > > > > Thanks for the links. Have seen them earlier. And some more. Should put > them > > together in one place. And realign them on web maps. All very exciting. > > > > Maybe can taken up in future GeoBLR hack-meets? > > > > Bests, > > > > sumandro > > ajantriks.net > > > > > > > > On Thursday, 22 May 2014 20:18:41 UTC+5:30, Thejesh GN wrote: > >> > >> Main Page: > >> http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00maplinks/index.html > >> > >> Example: > >> 1. Battle of plassey maps > >> > http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00maplinks/colonial/plassey1757/plassey1757.html > >> > >> 2. 1861 of India > >> > >> > http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00maplinks/colonial/sdukmaps/india1861/india1861.html > >> > >> 3. 1830s detailed maps of India > >> > >> > http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00maplinks/colonial/sdukmaps/sdukmaps.html > >> > >> > >> > >> Do you think we can realign these maps on OSM? Like > >> http://maps.nypl.org/warper/ > >> > >> That will be one fun project. > >> > >> Example overlay is > >> http://maps.nypl.org/warper/maps/14409#Preview_Rectified_Map_tab > >> > >> > >> Thej > >> -- > >> Thejesh GN ⏚ ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ.ಎನ್ > >> http://thejeshgn.com > >> GPG ID : 0xBFFC8DD3C06DD6B0 > > > > -- > > Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more > > about us by visiting http://datameet.org > > --- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "datameet" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email to [email protected]. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more > about us by visiting http://datameet.org > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "datameet" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us by visiting http://datameet.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
