[WikiEN-l] African maps

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geni wrote:
> On 1/11/07, MacGyverMagic/Mgm <macgyvermagic at 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=1&x=0&y=0&viewheight=6000&viewwidth=10000&rotation=0&fullimage=false&rootelement=&stylesheetpath=&useplugin=false&title=%2Fdimages%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fafrmaps%2Finu-afrmap-4333843-recto-ah.jp2&filename=%2Fdimages%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fafrmaps%2Finu-afrmap-4333843-recto-ah.jp2&returnurl=&imgclickx=0&imgclicky=0&vpContentsOffsetX=0&vpContentsOffsetY=0&requestId=2&previousRes=0&imgClickX=0&imageserver%3Fres=1&imgClickY=0&thumbnailActionSelect=thumbclick&imageActionSelect=imageclick%2Czoomin

It may also be possible to get at the stored jpeg2.