Society of cartographers conference 2011 plymouth

1. http://maps.nypl.org Putting a Map Library On the Net Entropy Free Tim Waters Crowdsourcing the georectification of historical maps

3. http://www.flickr.com/photos/havovubu/3728604649/ Crowdsourcing?

4. 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

5. Benkler's Coase's Penguin! Non monetary motivation Discrete multi sized pieces Low cost integration

7. How to make people happy to put your maps on the internet and trace over them for you!

8. http://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/

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

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

11. 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

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

17. What did they want, and why?

18. Schuyler Erle Shekhar Krishnan Entropy Free

22. http://maps.nypl.org

28. gdal_translate -a_srs '+init=epsg:4326' -of VRT /path/to/input/blah.tif /path/to/input/140_temp.vrt -gcp 34.189189189189, 150.64864864865, -0.2938842773, 0.0329589826 -gcp 544.05405405405, 327.540540540541, 0.1167297363, -0.1153563674 -gcp 542.56756756757, 9.43243243243001, 0.1167297363, 0.1084899254 gdalwarp -rn -dstalpha -s_srs 'EPSG:4326' /path/to/input/140_temp.vrt /path/to/output/140.tif -co TILED=YES Technical Gubbins

33. Layers: Buildings Districts Points of Interest Transport Network Hydrography

41. Pirates through the ages

43. http://www.flickr.com/photos/nielsvk/258851215

44. “ Rectification” “ Warping”

45. http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html

46. Other Novel Interfaces & Approaches

47. OldMapsOnline National Library of Scotland http://geo.nls.uk/maps/api/

48. http://www.georeferencer.org/ http://www.maptiler.org/ for standalone maps

49. MapAnalyst http://mapanalyst.cartography.ch/ & Georeferencer.org

50. Migurski from Stamen Design – Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps David Rumsey Collection

54. NYPL Living Atlas

56. http://www.flickr.com/photos/captkodak/289819621

59. http://mapwarper.net http://github.com/timwaters/mapwarper

60. @tim_waters http://maps.nypl.org http://maps.nypl.org