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 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 > test. > > Some of the key areas that I think need addressing: > > * Improving the automated vectorizer. Currently the vectorizer creates > polygons of the inside of buildings (rather than following the wall). For a > terraced street this produces a row of detached buildings. Some processing > could improve this. I guess this could be done before, after, or both > before and after the polygon has been processed by the human volunteers on > the website. > * The website looks like it's a Rails site. I would need a lot of help > with this as it's an area I know very little about. > > Are you able to help with either of these? > > Kind regards, > Rob > > > On 12 May 2014 16:26, Steven Horner <ste...@stevenhorner.com> wrote: > >> 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 >> was down and was never very usable before that. It sounds like from the >> WIKI things maybe starting to happen, date slider planned, etc. >> >> regards, >> Steven >> >> >> On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 10:04 PM, Rob Nickerson < >> rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> 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 Source, it should >>> be relatively easy to roll this out with NLS's (or other) maps. >>> >>> Who's interested in getting involved? You lot set the pace of this :-D >>> >>> Regards, >>> Rob >>> >>> * NLS would be able to supply the scanned and geo-rectified maps. As >>> with everyone else their ability to do any more is limited by their level >>> of funding. This should not be a problem as we can self host the website. >>> >>> >>> >>> >
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