I tinkered with the "Kilimanjaro to Tsavo Stn. U.R.. WOOS-8-3-1" map a fair bit. Started by using recognisable locations (features on lakes, etc.) but eventually settled on tagging the grid lines and using online conversion tools to give me the WGS-84. The ones with hills in look great in Google Earth, e.g. http://warper.wmflabs.org/maps/629.kml Difficult to get the map spot on.
On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 at 16:28 Tim Waters <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > so after a fix was applied to the Wikimaps Warper the collection of > 581 maps from Wikimedia Commons was re-imported and added to a mosaic > (layer) > > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:War%20Office%20Archive%20%E2%80%93%20British%20East%20Africa > > The mosaic: > http://warper.wmflabs.org/layers/4 > > The Tiles link is http://warper.wmflabs.org/layers/tile/4/{z}/{x}/{y}.png > and the WMS details can be found at > http://warper.wmflabs.org/layers/4#Export_tab > > and of course individual maps have their own WMS and Tiles endpoints too > > Cheers, > > Tim > > p.s. Note that loading up a map for the first might take a once only > period of a couple of minutes as the map gets requested from commons > and is loaded up in the warper ... you should see a progress bar in > that case! > > p.p.s. There's an issue with the warper not getting the correct > thumbnail for some of the maps, but it shouldn't affect how it works > in the warper. > > On 2 February 2016 at 13:58, Jez Nicholson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > The export tab http://warper.wmflabs.org/maps/629#Export_tab includes a > WMS > > link "for JOSM OpenStreetMap Editor" > > > > I haven't tried it yet as my company have firewalled the office with an > > https whitelist. > > > > On Mon, 1 Feb 2016 at 17:34 Andy Mabbett <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> On 1 February 2016 at 13:02, Tim Waters <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> > Great stuff. I think a few hundred maps (if not all) from this > >> > collection > >> > are already in the wikimaps warper. > >> > However there was an issue with making a mosaic (stitched layer) for > the > >> > category, so this will be fixed soon. > >> > >> Once that's done, how can people see the layer in JOSM? > >> > >> > I think the British Library also has control points for the maps which > >> > could > >> > be added to the warper when ready (I'd have to double check on this > >> > point > >> > though). > >> > >> My contact tells me they (BL & Indigo Trust) want to see the maps > >> reused; if there's a speciific request, I can forward it to them. > >> > >> -- > >> Andy Mabbett > >> @pigsonthewing > >> http://pigsonthewing.org.uk >
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