Over recent years I have received various donations of out of copyright OS sheets 6 inch, 1:2500 and 1:1250 for OSM use. Last June Ciaran posted a list here https://onedrive.live.com/?id=85B8D34D71603DA%21105&cid=085B8D34D71603DA
The 6 inch have much better clarity than the GSGS scans being added to the JOSM background layers while the 1:2500 are even more legible for towns and cities.They can be used for confirming doubtful spellings of names for crossroads, bridges etc and for adding more names as well as Burial ground outlines (where the Bing imagery shows they still exist.) Wexford and Dublin now have over 170 each. The plan being that unless we could get them scanned for sharing, interested mappers in a county could get the sheets and then when they had squeezed them dry of detail, they would pass them on to the Local Studies Sections in their County Library service. Who so far have been delighted at the prospect of having them available for public viewing. Recently I received another donation of several hundred and am embarrassed for space and so am looking for more interested mappers to please contact me forthwith at brian(at)hollinshead(dot)net. I now have some for most of the 26 counties. Wexford, Galway, Mayo, Roscommon, Clare and Sligo have been taken or are bespoken, I have a particular interest in passing on Meath and Wicklow but all inquiries most welcome. In the meantime I plan on sharing duplicate sheets and those still in copyright directly to various libraries as best I can. Kilkenny mappers please note I have scans of about a dozen six inch sheets for sharing. Would be delighted to hear from any of you with FOC access to a scanner capable of a six inch sheet (100 x 70cm). My thanks to those who have already taken some of the maps and wishing all you OSM mappers a happy and healthy New Year. _______________________________________________ Talk-ie mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie
