geni wrote:
On 1/11/07, MacGyverMagic/Mgm macgyvermagic@gmail.com wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6250225.stm
"A collection of rare maps of Africa, dating from 1530 to 1915, has been made available for free on the internet by Northwestern University in the US. " Is this something we should be storing too? I think we should at least make an effort to contact them about it...
Mgm
The format with which they appear on the net makes them hard/very hard to copy. Contacting may be only option
I've had some success with hacking the URL, but it likes to break randomly:
http://ansel.library.northwestern.edu/ImageServer/index.jsp?action=&res=...
It may also be possible to get at the stored jpeg2.