On 9/23/06, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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.
OS themselves should have a fairly complete set. I know they worked
with the people producing the commercial version. If we stuck to 100
year old+ I see no reason why they should not work with us.
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.
Libraries are likely to only have maps of their local area. For stuff
beyond that you would probably need central county archives and I
haven't got around to investigating those yet
I doubt there will be any question over them being public domain. OS
were very clear on that point
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.
The other posible groups are OpenStreetMap people and various local
history groups.
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geni