I've now had updated map files through from NLS and these work well. The
main priorities now are:
* Website - we need to think about the design. I've just raised this with
Chris at the NLS to get his thoughts (it is after all their maps at the
moment).
* Improving the vectorizer so that we don't
Hi folks,
I've heard back from the British Library - they are hugely interested with
the Map-Vectorizer work - it's really encouraging.
In brief they said that they were positive but that they'd need to get some
things sorted first, looking at licensing, formats etc and they would
update me
Good work Tim. It seems we have a lot of people interested in this. :-D
In regards to the NLS maps, I am having some trouble with the sample files
sent through to me. I sent them on to the guys from NYPL and even they
struggled. I've just contacted Chris at NLS to see if he can send me them
in a
Couple of things - building inspector update and British Library Goad maps.
Building Inspector update:
I've got it working and have put up an instance on heroku for the moment -
Works well and it can handle 10K rows in the database for free.
http://leatherwood.herokuapp.com/
* It's just got
Nice work Tim.You're right about the traced and centroid JSON files.They do
indeed come out of the NYPL map-vectorizer [1]. I've got a version of this
up and running on my computer and have successfully vectorized the test
file.
Chris Fleet (from NLS) has sent me some test maps, however these are
I might have some time this weekend to look at the Rails side of things
(that is, if no one else has made any progress)
Will ping back in a couple of days
Tim
On 12 May 2014 21:08, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Steven,
Thanks for the offer of help. Yesterday I managed
Thanks for you help Tim,
The NYPL code is here:
https://github.com/NYPL/building-inspector/
I'm assuming it's rails as that's mentioned in some of the code commits,
but I don't know any more than that.
Best,
Rob
p.s. The code for vectorizing maps is also on GitHub. Chris has sent me a
couple
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
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
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
The 1:2500 maps, and many other large scale maps on the Warwickshire site
were digitised and rectified by Landmark Information
Grouphttp://www.landmark.co.uk/,
who own the copyright in the images and of course in their rectified form.
Landmark. Landmark have a commericial business, Old-Maps which
Yes, out of bounds for now but coming out of copyright. Just as I said:
The OS strikethroughCounty\strikethrough 1:2500 series includes
addresses but is only just coming out of copyright.
If we can get hold them and scan them, then I see no problem with using
them when their copyright period
Correction: I don't mean OS Country series (that seems to be older and
probably now out of copyright). What I really mean is OS National Grid
1:2500 series, which can be seen at:
http://maps.warwickshire.gov.uk/historical/
Rob
On 3 May 2014 14:15, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote:
The OS County series includes addresses but is only just coming out of
copyright. I have access to a slippy map with a few sheets scanned but they
look like they're too recent and still in copyright.
It's Chris Fleet at NLS that we need to speak to. He's spoken at sotm
Scotland in the past. I'll
Those are some good examples - they appear to be around the same scale
also.
They are monochrome and don't have addresses which should limit a couple of
the types of the tasks. Could be worth trying the Building Inspector with
this dataset.
I wonder if there's anyone from the NLS on list?
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