Hi Cameron, Excellent. Great work. This still sounds like it is expensive for you to do. Would you like a donation towards this?
How are you planning on making the scans available? (Would the State Library like to have a copy of the I would me more than happy to host a backup copy for you, depending on their size. If it's helpful, I have access to an A4 sheet scanner (Brother MFC) which will scan to multipage PDF (in the CBD). Can do 20 pages at a time. Cheers, Paul On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 7:10 AM, Cameron <[email protected]> wrote: > All, > > I have recently been into the SA state library and found an out of copyright > SA street directory (from the 40s.) They had both Fuller's and Gregory's > directories but the Gregory's were far easier to read and thus, to copy. > > They are photocopying it for me now and once I have the copy I hope to scan > it and make it available online (they wouldn't let me take photos of it or > scan it myself, and to have them scan it was $6 a page. Photocopying was 30c > a page :) The directory was 50 pages. > > Some streets have changed names or changed course, and it doesn't show > anything built in the last 60 years, but I think it is still a useful > resource for quick naming of streets traced from Yahoo! imagery in the older > areas of Adelaide. > > ~Cameron > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au > > _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
