Just want to say these paper maps are a fantastic resource so please consider if you can support for your (possibly adopted) county!
I now have a chunk of the Kildare ones including out of copyright and I will start going through those in the coming weeks. Some are very high resolution and quick to manually find any new data, and move on. I have discovered some typos, missing burial grounds etc that will be useful to add. Also "tanks" near the back garden - oh well could be worse. My local Councillor suggested local area 21 heritage funding if there are some expenses that that could support. E.g. running a workshop, scanning, maybe even hardware. There may need to be a local angle to it - not sure if we could fund a national effort this route. I have submitted such funding applications in the past - if you want me to consider something with a Kildare angle - e.g. hosting a national meetup/workshop in a local hotel or something let me know. I will meet county local history services folks / Heritage Officer in the coming weeks and let you know if anything to share. Some Heritage Officers get interns from time to time - also there are community employment schemes. Food for thought: it would not take much training to scan OOC paper maps and at least least add notes to OSM for any features not yet added. Thanks Brian for driving this. - John. On 10 January 2016 at 18:05, moltonel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Brian, sorry I didn't answer even to your private message until now. > > I'm very much for the scan and donate option. I'd be happy to help with > the labor-intensive scan/upload/rectify tasks but I have no clue where to > get the hardware for the first step ? > -- > Vincent Dp > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ie mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie > _______________________________________________ Talk-ie mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie
