oa, 1 month ago to maps German

Auf der Plattform Georeferencer stehen 1479 digitalisierte Kartenblätter aus dem historischen Bestand der #ethbibliothek bereit zur #georeferenzierung :

https://library.ethz.ch/standorte-und-medien/medientypen/geodaten-karten-luftbilder/crowdsourcing-projekt.html

#ethlibrary #maps #historicalmap #karten #ethz #crowdsourcing #gis

ClaireFromClare, 6 months ago to philosophy

"Cambridge is probably the most intensively dug city in the country" (UK). Recent archaeology has informed a long-awaited map showing some of the layers: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-67497550

The #HistoricTownsTrust is showing glimpses in its "Advent Calendar": https://nitter.net/hist_towns

Earlier maps of the #medieval street names & hostels, #Roman context & snapshot c.1800 are on the HTT website at https://www.historictownstrust.uk/towns/cambridge

#HistoricalMap #Cambridge #CambridgeUniversity @medievodons @histodons

oshistory, 10 months ago to opensource

So today i had a strange revelation which has the potential for a PSA in #gischat : while our #mapcache powered #wmts for #historicalmap in Hessen has worked from the start in #qgis i have received reports from #arcmap users (v10) that they could not use the service. It was showing the notorious red exclamation mark. Not being #opensource there was no way to determine the reason it failed. Turns out it was a colon in the scale (1:25.000) in the metadata title Tag. IMHO a tale to #switch2qgis