Many of these have been georectified (to one degree or another) here: http://maps.nypl.org/relief/maps?field=title&query=haiti&show_warped=1 Note that if you click on the Export link for a map, there's a WMS link for JOSM.
Cheers, Brad On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Jaakko Helleranta.com < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > For the sake of sharing valuable information here's a link to the best > topographic maps of Haiti that I've seen. I think I found the link > originally(?) from some OSM Haiti wiki page (which needs a total make-over > sooner than later but that's another story). > > The link is http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/topo/haiti/haiti_index.html for > which I created a shorturl: > http://j.mp/*haiti-topomaps*<http://j.mp/haiti-topomaps> > > There are 84 PDFs maps available through the link, which total 655MB in > size. I have downloaded all of these maps to my computer and made them more > easily accessible by adding the 5 digit identifier originally at the end of > the file name to the beginning of the filename, which makes them easy to > find (as you can see the id number from the linked page for a given area). > In case someone wants a local copy for him-/herself I have put the files in > my Dropbox and am happy to share the folder w/ anyone who sends me a request > w/ their Dropbox email address. > > Also, in case someone is interested in stiching all the maps together that > is something that Seb and I have talked about and are happy to get help from > anyone. (I already have access to image extracts of the PDFs that are > cropped to show the map area only. ... We are thinking of creating a WMS > layer of these maps -- there's a ton of data that hasn't yet been added to > OSM from these.) > > Cheers, > -Jaakko > -- > jaakkoh in OSM > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ht mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ht > >
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