Tim Waters Open Historical Maps Putting a map library on the net http://thinkwhere.wordpress.com @tim_waters Geothings & Entropy Free

Emerging Geo Stack

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stabilo-boss/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/havovubu/3728604649/

Crowdsourcing ? “ I find the term incredibly irritating... Any company that thinks it’s going to build a site by outsourcing all the work to its users not only disrespects the users but completely misunderstands what it should be doing. Your job is to provide a structure for your users to Collaborate, and that takes a lot of work”. Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia

Making people happy to put your maps on the interwebs and trace over them for you!

Core Technology – traditional GIS stuff. Georectification Digitization

Entropy Free http://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/

Isothermal chart, or, View of climates & productions / drawn from the accounts of Humboldt & others, by W.C. Woodbridge. 1843

A new systeme of the mathematicks: containing I. Arithmetick,.... 1681

The English Empire in America.from Atlas minimus, or, A book of geography : shewing all the empires, monarchies, kingdomes, regions, dominions, principalities and c ountries, in the whole world 1679

Sacrifice Island. from America: being the latest, and most accurate description o f the Nevv vvorld 1671

http://dev.maps.nypl.org/warper/layers/863

Um, huh?

Demo time!

Layers: Buildings Districts Points of Interest Transport Network Hydrography

Conclusions

http://maps.nypl.org/warper Find me for beta login details or email [email_address] More details: http://thinkwhere.wordpress.com Upload and geo rectify your own imagery now: http://warper.geothings.net Have a go now! Future: Dynamic HTML5 space age stuff Open Historical Map

http://thinkwhere.wordpress.com @tim_waters Geothings & Entropy Free