On 18 December 2017 at 09:05, geni <geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 17 December 2017 at 13:59, Fæ
<faewik(a)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_1:10….
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.
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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
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faewik(a)gmail.com
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae