On 18 December 2017 at 09:05, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 17 December 2017 at 13:59, Fæ faewik@gmail.com wrote:
All the maps can be found in sub-directories by county from Cornwall to Orkney at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ordnance_Survey_1st_series_1:105....
Hmm we're going to need a new copyright tag. The images are not faithful photographic reproductions since someone (well The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation) has been pretty brutal with the levels. Not original enough to qualify for copyright mind. Just wish I could get access to the raw scans.
-- geni
The copyright statement seems adequate. To be a "faithful reproduction" does not require a technically fault-free reproductive process, just one where the intention is to create a reproduction. All digitizations reduce quality in some way.
I agree that the levels are abrupt on the scans, but they are a usefully high resolution. It would be a great future project to use some WMF or other funding to pay for a better digitization.
Fae