On 23/09/06, Rob Church <robchur(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 23/09/06, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> It should be reasonably easy to get a university
onside with such a project.
David Gerard never has problems getting people to
co-operate with him.
David Gerard appreciates the value of a LART. ;)
You overestimate my negotiating skills just because they're better
than yours. OTOH your code goes into MediaWiki a lot ;-)
Is there a suitable stash of the maps in question? Preferably at a
university with such a scanner. I can start asking around my very
close and dear Internet friends or something. So can all of you.
Getting required permission for the use ("we plan to copy and release
them all as the public domain the OS says they are") may require
closer negotiation with relevant staff, e.g. library staff. If needed,
having Wikimedia UK publicise the wonderful work of the wonderful
university in question might help sway the deal. I'm speculating off
the top of my head here.
- d.