Hi Steven, Thanks for the offer of help. Yesterday I managed to get the NYPL vectorizer working (this is the tool that has a first stab at creating vectors from the map). I did this on a small screenshot of NLS's London maps. I've asked Chris if he could send me a GeoTIF to do a larger scale test.
Some of the key areas that I think need addressing: * Improving the automated vectorizer. Currently the vectorizer creates polygons of the inside of buildings (rather than following the wall). For a terraced street this produces a row of detached buildings. Some processing could improve this. I guess this could be done before, after, or both before and after the polygon has been processed by the human volunteers on the website. * The website looks like it's a Rails site. I would need a lot of help with this as it's an area I know very little about. Are you able to help with either of these? Kind regards, Rob On 12 May 2014 16:26, Steven Horner <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I would be happy to help in anyway and have previously had a conversation > with Chris at NLS regarding helping georeference some of their maps. > > I had been looking into creating my own historical version of OSM for a > local personal project, when I looked a few weeks ago Open Historical Map > was down and was never very usable before that. It sounds like from the > WIKI things maybe starting to happen, date slider planned, etc. > > regards, > Steven > > > On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 10:04 PM, Rob Nickerson <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> Hi All, Historic Map folks, >> >> I have now heard from Chris at National Library of Scotland (NLS). He is >> very supportive* of the idea of using something similar to the NYPL >> Building Inspector software and website for digitizing some of NLS's >> historic maps. As NYPL have made all their software Open Source, it should >> be relatively easy to roll this out with NLS's (or other) maps. >> >> Who's interested in getting involved? You lot set the pace of this :-D >> >> Regards, >> Rob >> >> * NLS would be able to supply the scanned and geo-rectified maps. As with >> everyone else their ability to do any more is limited by their level of >> funding. This should not be a problem as we can self host the website. >> >> >> >>
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