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Subject: Re: wide format scanners/historic map image servers
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 23:56:57 -0700
From: Matt Fox <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
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You might look at Microsoft's Deep Zoom Composer. Much slicker than
Zoomify for hosting large images online. There are command line tools
that could process the maps in batches.
http://www.seadragon.com/developer/creating-content/deep-zoom-composer/
You can see some examples I put together here that use the same technology.
http://www.gelib.com/microsoft-sea-dragon-map.htm
You could also use Google Earth, especially if you plan on
geo-referencing the maps.
Check out http://www.gelib.com/historic-topographic-maps.htm to see
how I was able to use Google earth to provide access to several 100
historic topos. The basic process I used is
1) Georeference the maps
2) Process the maps into KML (can be done in batches)
3) Upload to server
4) Enter data about the maps into a spreadsheet (Name of map, Year,
Scale, Top Left Corner, etc.)
5) Spreadsheet data is run through a macro that creates the KML index
file (the rectangle outlines of each map, the clickable links, etc.).
6) Upload the KML index file to the server.
The only real time consuming parts are georeferencing the maps and
entering the data about each map into the spreadsheet. Everything
else is more or less done by the computer in batches.
You might consider signing up for a Google Adsense account to help pay
for scanner. Not sure how much traffic your home page gets, but a
couple well placed ads on your website could probably net you
somewhere around $3-$10 for every 1,000 visitors. Very easy to set
up.
Good luck, I'm also hoping to add several 1,000 more historic topo
maps to my website....just don't have the time lately.
Matt Fox
Google Earth Library
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 6:16 AM, Angie Cope <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Subject: wide format scanners/historic map image servers
> Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:57:12 -0400
> From: Dave Broer <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
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>
> Hello all,
>
> Our library has about 5,000 historic map images available online but we
> have over 35,000 more maps that we want to make available online so I'm
> reaching out to fellow map librarians for ideas on how to achieve our
> goal in a cost effective manner. With that in mind, I have two main
> questions:
>
> 1. Are there any economical wide format scanners out there? From what
> I've seen, a scanner is going to cost several thousand dollars that we
> don't have so I thought I would see if there are some other solutions
> out there. I can have some maps scanned at nearby in institutions, but
> I don't want to overwhelm them. It appears that a grant hunter is in my
> future!
>
> 2. What is available for an open source CMS application to act as a
> map/image server? We currently use a makeshift photo gallery software
> that allows for using bandwidth saving tools such as Zoomify and batch
> uploading. We'd love to add links for users to download full images,
> but can't offer that with all maps due to copyright issues. I'd love to
> find a CMS that would allow us to batch upload images into categories,
> add the geodata and select which ones could be fully downloaded as well
> as using some kind of bandwidth saving measures. Any thoughts on this?
>
> I appreciate any input that you can offer and I thank everyone for there
> generous input in the past.
>
> Dave Broer
> Broer Map Library
> http://www.broermapsonline.org/
>
>
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