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
>
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