Dave F. [mailto:[email protected]] wrote: >Sent: 07 January 2010 4:35 PM >To: Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) >Cc: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] More OS o-o-c sheets released > >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?
If you are using Potlatch you can use Ctrl B I think to add an OS 1:25 source tag. In JOSM I'd make it clearer that's it OOC. So perhaps "OOC OS 1_25k" which also gets rid of the colon which might be confused with a namespace separator to some in the XML All the sheets I current have available for Devon and Cornwall are now uploaded. I have a couple more for Somerset which will appear soon. Cheers Andy > >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
