On 17/12/2010 20:54, geni wrote: > On 17 December 2010 08:55, Charles Matthews > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Geograph would be a good place to start. As would English Heritage, which >> absorbed the old (1908) Royal Commission on Historical Monuments: I have >> their stonking volumes surveying Cambridge. Geograph goes by grid square, >> which is a sensible enough system. > English Heritage would probably point out that from their POV it has > already been done: > > http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/ > > Which will be the problem you face with dealing with any traditional > organization. Thus geograph. > Well, it's all pretty interesting. I have started some sort of page about it all, for my home county:
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Loves_Cambridgeshire_Monuments Not knowing much about this, I went to the National Monuments Register download area (requires a nosy sort of registration, but that's all). They do six categories of monuments, for which "Scheduled Monuments" (about 18000) might be what some people meant. The data download is of size 15,706,462 kb. Do people really still think in bits? Even so, it's two gigabytes? And that's the zipped version Also on offer: Listed Buildings (350,000) at 27,735,218 kbm is even bigger. Others are noticeably smaller: Battlefields, Parks and Gardens; Scheduled Monuments; World Heritage Sites. The last of those might be relevant? But can anyone explain http://www.ukworldheritage.org.uk/? This all to get GIS data, to get a handle on the issue. Well, if someone knows how to handle such files and subdivide them, these might become a valuable resource. Charles _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
