[WikiEN-l] African maps

[gwern branwen]

On 1/11/07, SPUI <drspui at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

$ wget -r http://fedora.library.northwestern.edu/inu-afrmaps/

This would seem to work. You simply have to follow the proxy server's
redirect to find the original directory, which is fortunately publicly
viewable. I however do not have the spare disk space to check that
this would download them all - the 148 files would eat up a
distressing amount of space.

--Gwern