Hi, Thanks to the National Library of Scotland (NLS), we now have two maps of Ireland available for OSM usage.
These two maps are: Bartholomew Quarter Inch to the mile (1: 253440) 1940 British War Office One Inch to the mile (1:63,360) 1941-43 - (G.S.G.S. 4136) Chris Fleet, the senior map curator at NLS supplied me with high quality scans of the above maps which I then georeferenced. These maps are now added to their large collection of British and Irish maps at http://geo.nls.uk/maps/ . While my georeferencing isn't perfect, hopefully these maps should prove very useful to the Irish OSM community as a source of placenames, county boundaries, missing roads and spotting other gaps in the map. The Bartholomew maps is available up to zoom 13 and the GSGS is available up to zoom 15. The two maps should already be available as imagery layers in JOSM. The GSGS map should appear in Potlatch2 over the next few days. I've also set up a page where you can view these layers at http://maps.openstreetmap.ie/oocmaps.html. The original GSGS map was supplied as one image with the 76 sheets already stitched together which proved problematic to accurately georeference. We've recently obtained the scans for each individual sheet so we're working on an improved version of the GSGS map which we're planning to work on over the winter. Enjoy! Donal _______________________________________________ Talk-ie mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie
