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Dear André,
Thanks for the recommendation.
Yes, wiki commons is on my list.
One has to be careful though. Sometimes I've found images that seem to still
fall under European
copyright rules, but not North American ones. A few people,( very few),
on wiki play a little loose with the rules. I have a lawyer advising me,
so that will help. Plus, this venture falls under the educational heading.
That should buy me less rage if I mess up.
All, if you haven't seen the list of cartographers on Wikipedia, it's a great
place for beginners
to see a quick list of the masters.
Thanks again,
Heather
[MapHist] Help finding photographs of early cartographers/ explorers for app
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Andre Engels andreengels at gmail.com
Fri Oct 14 14:37:10 CEST 2011
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On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 11:59 PM, Heather Kinsinger <hak4u2 at aol.com> wrote:
> This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the
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> All,
>
> I am launching an app on historic maps in hopes of getting a broader
> audience interested in the history of cartography. The app should be
> finished in a week or so, then it will take Apple another few weeks to
> approve. I do not see why Apple will reject this project.
> It will be a free app for iOs based devices. Ie. iPad, iPhone, and iPod
> touch devices.
> The app will only be photos and images, with an accompanying blog available
> for further information. The blog will be available for everyone to view.
> In order to avoid copyright issues, I am pulling historic copyright free
> images of maps.
> I would also like to add copyright free photos of early cartographers and
> those involved with mapping our world from the1870's to approximately 1935.
> As an example, please see the link below to NOAA's photo library and their
> "Getting There" collection.
>
> http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/cgs/gettingthere.html
>
> I have found a few images in the LOC's Print's and Photographs collection,
> but I defiantly could use the collective wisdom of maphist for more help and
> suggestions.
> I do not have images of British or other European cartographers, so a
> collection of those would be great, along with any other world surveyors and
> mappers. I think an article on those men and women would be fantastic for
> the blog.
>
One good place to go to would be Wikimedia Commons. It started out as the
media repository for Wikipedia, and still functions as such, but nowadays
also acts as a general repository with over 11 million images, all of them
either out of copyright or under a free license (usually CC-BY or CC-BY-SA).
To search for cartographers, go to
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Cartographers. Many of the links
only lead to maps of the cartographers, but several others also have photos,
drawings or paintings depicting the cartographers. Likewise
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Explorers for explorers.
--
André Engels, andreengels at gmail.com
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