The NLS Historical Maps API - Chris Fleet
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Presentation given at the Geospatial in the Cultural Heritage Domain - Past, Present & Future event in London on 7th March 2012. The event was organised as part of the JISC GECO project.
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The NLS Historical Maps API - Chris Fleet
- 1. The NLS Historical Maps API Background and context Choice of Maps Georeferencing Tools Standards Community usage Sustainability Top tips Chris Fleet, National Library of Scotland
- 2. The NLS Historical Maps API Background and context Choice of Maps Georeferencing Tools Standards Community usage Sustainability Top tips
- 3. NLS Maps of Scotland website http://maps.nls.uk http://geo.nls.uk
- 5. Background: ScotWays Heritage Paths mashup
- 6. Background: Gazetteer for Scotland mashup
- 7. The NLS Historical Maps API Background and context Choice of Maps Georeferencing Tools Standards Community usage Sustainability Top tips
- 8. Choice of Maps 1:1 million, Great Britain, 1933 Quarter-inch to the mile, Scotland, 1921-1923 Quarter-inch to the mile, England and Wales, 1919-1921 One-inch to the mile, Popular edition, Scotland, 1920-1930 One-inch to the mile, New Popular edition, England and Wales, 1945-1947
- 9. The NLS Historical Maps API Background and context Choice of Maps Georeferencing Tools Standards Community usage Sustainability Top tips
- 10. Georeferencing Used ArcGIS - followed workflow described at: http://geo.nls.uk/urbhist/guides_georeferencingarcgis.html
- 11. Tools: MapTiler and Tileserver http://www.maptiler.org/ http://www.tileserver.com/
- 14. Standards The Historical API maps can be displayed in any web browser using a customizable JavaScript API based on OpenLayers, or the Google Maps API or Microsoft Bing Maps SDK - http://nls.tileserver.com/api.js OpenGIS Web Map Tiling Standard (OGC WMTS) http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/54 OSGeo Tile Map Service (OSGEO TMS) http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Tile_Map_Service_Specification Microsoft Bing Maps QuadKey http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb259689.aspx
- 15. Launch - May 2010 Project homepage: http://geo.nls.uk/maps/api/
- 16. The NLS Historical Maps API Background and context Choice of Maps Georeferencing Tools Standards Community usage Sustainability Top tips
- 17. Usage trends
- 18. User Communities : Outdoor Leisure Wheres the Path - http://wtp2.appspot.com/wheresthepath.htm - 388,000 views
- 19. User Communities : Outdoor Leisure Outside Maps Otopia WindowsPhone app
- 20. User Communities : Outdoor Leisure
- 21. User Communities: Dartmouth Tors
- 22. User Communities : Photography
- 23. User Communities : Archaeology 1
- 25. User Communities : Local History
- 26. User Communities: Family History 1
- 27. User Communities: Family History 2 Borders Family History Society - www.bordersfhs.org.uk/
- 28. User Communities : Specialist History
- 29. User Communities : Road History - SABRE
- 30. User Communities : Road History - SABRE
- 31. User Communities : Road History - SABRE
- 32. User Communities: Historic Buildings
- 33. User Communities : Education
- 34. User communities - Open Street Map http://maps.openstreetmap.ie/oocmaps.html
- 35. NLS usage – Geoserver / Openlayers
- 36. NLS usage – GeoReferencer
- 37. NLS usage – Mosaic Viewer
- 38. NLS usage – Mosaic Viewer
- 39. NLS usage – Mosaic Viewer
- 40. New NLS Georeferenced Layers - 2012 http://geo.nls.uk/search/mosaic/
- 41. The NLS Historical Maps API Background and context Choice of Maps Georeferencing Tools Standards Community usage Sustainability Top tips
- 42. Sustainability • NLS support for API • Usage logging for large/commercial users • Google Ads? • New licensed / subscription- based historic layers?
- 43. Top tips Don't underestimate how large and diverse the "geo" community is Don't overestimate the technical competence of the community Don't underestimate the time required to administer and sustain the application properly
- 44. The NLS Historical Maps API Thank you! Chris Fleet, National Library of Scotland