Hi,
This might be interesting for those interested in Dutch (colonial) history: last week I did an donation of 512 maps and images from the proceedings of the Dutch Parliament (the so-called States Generalhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:States_General_of_the_Netherlands. They are from the period 1885-1995.
The images are in Category:Media contributed by Tweede Kamerhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_contributed_by_Tweede_Kamer. Every image has geo coordinates for the map centre.
The set has some unique content, not only about the Netherlands, but also about its former colonies Dutch East-Indies (now Indonesia) and Suriname. Themes include the Delta Works, polders, land reclamation and the construction of roads, railways, and ports. To foster reuse, I started assigning thematic categories to some images, for example Eastern Scheldthttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Eastern_Scheldt, Delta Workshttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Delta_Works, Canals in Frieslandhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Canals_in_Friesland, IJsselmeerhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:IJsselmeer and Railway lines in the Netherlandshttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Railway_lines_in_the_Netherlands
Met vriendelijke groet / With kind regards
Olaf Janssen
Wikipedia & open data coordinator
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Hi Olaf,
That looks like a nice collection of maps! I added a couple to the Wikimaps Warper. See for example https://warper.wmflabs.org/maps/221#Preview_tab .
For people who want to play around with the Warper too: * Go to https://warper.wmflabs.org and login. Select Oauth Wikimedia Commons * Go to https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_contributed_by_Tweede_Kame... and pick a map * Edit the source, change "| warped = " to "| warped = 1" and save it * You'll now have a link "View the georeferenced map in the Wikimaps Warper", click it * Go to the "Rectify" tab * You'll get two maps. On the left the old map, on the right the current OpenStreetMap (https://warper.wmflabs.org/maps/221#Rectify_tab) * Put a point on the same location on both maps (for example a city) and click "Add Control Point" * Do this for at least three points, but more is better. Try to spread them around the map * Click "Warp image" and wait * Go to the "Preview" tab to see your work (https://warper.wmflabs.org/maps/221#Preview_tab)
Maarten
Op 20-11-2015 om 15:42 schreef Olaf Janssen:
Hi,
This might be interesting for those interested in Dutch (colonial) history: last week I did an donation of 512 maps and images from the proceedings of the Dutch Parliament (the so-called States General https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:States_General_of_the_Netherlands. They are from the period 1885-1995.
The images are in Category:Media contributed by Tweede Kamer https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_contributed_by_Tweede_Kamer. Every image has geo coordinates for the map centre.
The set has some unique content, not only about the Netherlands, but also about its former colonies Dutch East-Indies (now Indonesia) and Suriname. Themes include the Delta Works, polders, land reclamation and the construction of roads, railways, and ports.
To foster reuse, I started assigning thematic categories to some images, for example Eastern Scheldt https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Eastern_Scheldt, Delta Works https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Delta_Works, Canals in Friesland https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Canals_in_Friesland, IJsselmeer https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:IJsselmeer and Railway lines in the Netherlands https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Railway_lines_in_the_Netherlands
Met vriendelijke groet / With kind regards
Olaf Janssen
Wikipedia & open data coordinator
Koninklijke Bibliotheek- National Library of the Netherlands olaf.janssen@kb.nl mailto:olaf.janssen@kb.nl
+31 (0)70 3140 388 @ookgezellig
www.slideshare.net/OlafJanssenNL http://www.slideshare.net/OlafJanssenNL
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Hi Maarten,
With my WMF programs hat on: Do we have ready case studies for how and why partners have used the Warper? I have not seen mention of it anywhere in our communications of GLAM-Wiki case studies/example projects.
It seems like the Warper tool would be perfect for outreach to a number of organizations -- give them a reason to give us the community more maps, and quite likely, we have one of the most open and easy to engage platforms for doing this kind of work (I notice that the tool only has been used ~200 times). I would love to see a case study/ business discussion like https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Case_studies/Catalonia%27s_Network_... or https://outreach.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=GLAM/Case_studies/The_Natio... , so we could share the strategy/example more broadly.
Cheers,
Alex Stinson
On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 11:43 AM, Maarten Dammers maarten@mdammers.nl wrote:
Hi Olaf,
That looks like a nice collection of maps! I added a couple to the Wikimaps Warper. See for example https://warper.wmflabs.org/maps/221#Preview_tab .
For people who want to play around with the Warper too:
- Go to https://warper.wmflabs.org and login. Select Oauth Wikimedia
Commons
- Go to
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_contributed_by_Tweede_Kame... and pick a map
- Edit the source, change "| warped = " to "| warped = 1" and save it
- You'll now have a link "View the georeferenced map in the Wikimaps
Warper", click it
- Go to the "Rectify" tab
- You'll get two maps. On the left the old map, on the right the current
OpenStreetMap (https://warper.wmflabs.org/maps/221#Rectify_tab)
- Put a point on the same location on both maps (for example a city) and
click "Add Control Point"
- Do this for at least three points, but more is better. Try to spread
them around the map
- Click "Warp image" and wait
- Go to the "Preview" tab to see your work (
https://warper.wmflabs.org/maps/221#Preview_tab)
Maarten
Op 20-11-2015 om 15:42 schreef Olaf Janssen:
Hi,
This might be interesting for those interested in Dutch (colonial) history: last week I did an donation of 512 maps and images from the proceedings of the Dutch Parliament (the so-called States General https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:States_General_of_the_Netherlands. They are from the period 1885-1995.
The images are in Category:Media contributed by Tweede Kamer https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_contributed_by_Tweede_Kamer. Every image has geo coordinates for the map centre.
The set has some unique content, not only about the Netherlands, but also about its former colonies Dutch East-Indies (now Indonesia) and Suriname. Themes include the Delta Works, polders, land reclamation and the construction of roads, railways, and ports.
To foster reuse, I started assigning thematic categories to some images, for example Eastern Scheldt https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Eastern_Scheldt, Delta Works https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Delta_Works, Canals in Friesland https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Canals_in_Friesland, IJsselmeer https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:IJsselmeer and Railway lines in the Netherlands https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Railway_lines_in_the_Netherlands
Met vriendelijke groet / With kind regards
Olaf Janssen
Wikipedia & open data coordinator
Koninklijke Bibliotheek - National Library of the Netherlands olaf.janssen@kb.nl
+31 (0)70 3140 388 @ookgezellig
http://www.slideshare.net/OlafJanssenNLwww.slideshare.net/OlafJanssenNL
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