Andy This is fantastic. With your West country uploads I can now obsessively map the individual historic buildings of my city.
Any recommendations on what to use in the source tag? 1st Ed 1:25 maybe? Cheers Dave F. Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: > Great to see some fine mapping from Scotland available. > > And to also follow up with a status on the 1:25,000 two and a half inches to > the mile out of copyright mapping. Currently I have scanned and uploaded 181 > of the 2027 sheets in the series. Yesterday I uploaded most of what I > currently have available for the southwest: > > http://ooc.openstreetmap.org/?zoom=8&lat=50.88225&lon=-3.61335&layers=00B0 > > I have approximately 120 still to scan, rectify, tile and upload as well as > a further 60 ish that will be out of copyright in a years time. More come in > each week. The majority of those I can upload now are in Wales. There are > also some in the north (Yorkshire, Lancashire and the Lakes) and in the > southeast to the west and south of London. > > I've had some grateful donations of maps, as well as a few who have loaned > their own collections for scanning. This is great and we could do with more, > so if you have any of these blue cover maps lurking and can live without > them for a few days or indefinitely then drop me a line. > > More on this series and how to use them at: > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Provisional/First_Edition > > Cheers > > Andy > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:talk-gb- >> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve Chilton >> Sent: 02 January 2010 4:57 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [Talk-GB] More OS o-o-c sheets released >> >> I am pleased to say that another batch of OS 7th Series sheets that are now >> out of copyright have been scanned and released. >> There are now a total of 36 sheets available, which is over a third of the >> coverage of Scotland. >> Thanks to the anonymous person who funded the hi-res bureau scanning, and >> to the folks who rectified the sheets - Philip Stubbs, Andy Robinson, Tim >> Sheerman-Chase and Ollie O'Brien - and to Tim for tiling/uploading the >> results. >> Details are at: >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/7th_Series >> and >> http://steve8.dev.openstreetmap.org/os7.htm >> >> They are available as layers for detail extraction in both Potlatch and >> JOSM (details in first link above). >> >> I am off to map the abundant water features on the Isle of Lewis. >> http://timsc.dev.openstreetmap.org/openlayers/os7/?zoom=12&lat=58.1131&lon= >> -6.81305&layers=B00 >> Happy mapping! >> >> Cheers >> STEVE >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-GB mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > > > _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
