<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/3/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Markus Neteler</b> <<a href="mailto:neteler.osgeo@gmail.com">neteler.osgeo@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">

Hi, to illustrate the GIS capabilities of georeferencing scanned historical maps to a modern reference map, I am seeking a sample pair. Is anyone willing to "donate" it (be in public, be privately)?

<br>As European citizen I have the wel known problems to get<br>such material...</blockquote><div><br>There is a WMS of scanned UK Historical maps at <a href="http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk">www.visionofbritain.org.uk</a>

  - <a href="http://vision.edina.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wms-vision?request=getcapabilities">http://vision.edina.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wms-vision?request=getcapabilities</a> which are all out of copyright (and interestingly contain the OS National Grid lines which OS claim to still hold copyright on). For modern data OS have released two tiles of mastermap 

<a href="http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/products/osmastermap/layers/topography/sample.html">http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/products/osmastermap/layers/topography/sample.html</a> to allow people to experiment on it. 

<br><br>Ian<br></div></div><br>-- <br><br>Ian Turton<br><a href="http://www.geotools.org">http://www.geotools.org</a><br><a href="http://pennspace.blogspot.com/">http://pennspace.blogspot.com/</a>