James, I nice channel for activation might be the Wikimaps facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/groups/wikimaps/ .
Cheers, Susanna 2014-11-11 18:32 GMT-03:00 James Heald <[email protected]>: > Hi everybody, > > A quick update on the campaign to find all the maps (and ground plans) in > the British Library's one-million-image Flickr stream scanned from old 19th > century books. > > This is of particular relevance to the Wikimaps project, because as soon > as we've tagged all the maps and plans on Flickr, the BL will start > georeferencing them with its own loyal volunteers, so that in the new year > we should be able to upload all the maps to Commons, complete with a full > set of georeferencing control points. > > The good news is that in the first ten days, we've gone through the Flickr > pages for half the books scanned for the collection, and tagged 11,000 maps > and plans, ready for georeferencing. > > See latest status here: > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:British_Library/ > Mechanical_Curator_collection/map_tag_status > > The bad news is that the effort so far has almost all been made by about > ten people, who are now starting to tire. So the project desperately needs > more help, if we're to push on and get all the old maps found. > > As the status page above shows and links, a lot of progress has been made > with many parts of the index; but some other parts -- for example, index > pages of books relating to the United States, and to Scandinavia -- still > remain almost untouched. > > What's needed is very simple. As explained on the status page, it's just > to go through each entry that has a pink "Untagged maps?" templated link, > tag all the images that are maps, then remove the templated link from the > list on the wikipage. > > This should produce an excellent resource for the Wikimaps project. But > first we need to identify the maps, so the British Library can georeference > them. > > So if anyone on this list knows anyone who might be interested to help, or > if anyone could organise a group to help, please do let them know (or even > please do help with a bit of tagging yourself). > > It would be so good to get all the maps and charts and plans found in this > collection. But it's going to need a bit more help. > > All best, > > James. > > _______________________________________________ > Maps-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/maps-l > -- *Susanna Ånäs *Käyttäjä:Susannaanas Wikimedia Suomi <http://wikimedia.fi/> – Wikimaps <http://wikimaps.wikimedia.fi/> – GLAM <http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM> @ <https://twitter.com/WMFinland>WMFinland <https://twitter.com/WMFinland> / Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/WikimediaSuomi> / Liity jäseneksi! <http://fi.wikimedia.org/wiki/Liity_j%C3%A4seneksi>
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