MapWarper http://mapwarper.net/ is basically the key option for the Wikimaps concept to do the georeferencing. There are others, such as the Georeferencer, http://www.georeferencer.org/, used by the British Library http://www.bl.uk/maps/ project, but the source code is proprietary, though heavily influenced by MapWarper 1. Should the development of the MapWarper be continued?
If one wants to install an open source GIS environment, the way to go is QuantumGIS, http://www.qgis.org/.
But I am by no means a GIS expert, instead a maps enthusiast.
Best, Susanna
1 http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november12/fleet/11fleet.html
2013/4/17 Kai Krueger kakrueger@gmail.com
On 04/16/2013 11:42 PM, Lars Aronsson wrote:
On 04/16/2013 10:50 PM, Susanna Ånäs wrote:
My name is Susanna Ånäs and I am active in the Finnish Wikimedia. We have a cooperation project going with the Finnish National Archives with their historical maps and this has given us the opportunity to look anew at the Wikimaps environment. http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/** Wikipedia:Wikiprojekti_**Historialliset_kartat/In_**englishhttp://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikiprojekti_Historialliset_kartat/In_english
Do you know how to georeference scanned maps? I have plenty of scanned maps of Sweden that are out of copyright. A few are uploaded to Commons, http://commons.wikimedia.org/**wiki/Category:** Generalstabskartan_s%C3%B6dra_**1880http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Generalstabskartan_s%C3%B6dra_1880 but there are plenty more. And I haven't taken the time to learn how to do something intelligent with them.
You might want to have a look at http://mapwarper.net/ That page looks like it can georeference and tile old scanned maps.
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