[WikiEN-l] African maps

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geni <geniice at ...> wrote:

>> "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...

> The format with which they appear on the net makes them hard/very hard
> to copy. Contacting may be only option

Actually, they are not hidden at all and copying couldn't be much easier. Links
to high resolution TIFF files of the maps are readily available on the
information page of each map, after clicking on "More information". There are
113 maps, some of them on multiple sheets (files). I tried to download one and
got a 8000x7000 TIFF of 100MB with a decent speed. I can't imagine why such
archive files would be given if not for reuse.

-- para