Hi everyone,
Just a quick update from the
University of Ottawa, where we’ve been moving forward
with the historic map scanning project initiated by
Nancy Lemay last spring.
Some of you may remember that last
spring the Geographic, Statistical and Government
Information Centre (GSG) began to digitize a number of
historic maps and fire insurance plans in our
collection. I'm glad to report that we have digitized
592 fire insurance plans of the Ottawa-Gatineau area,
eastern Ontario & western Quebec and 662 historic
Canadian topo maps ranging in date from 1907 - 1959
(scale: 1:63,360 / 1 mile to 1 inch). We had archival
TIFFs and JPEG derivatives created for all maps and FIP
plans. In the case of the topo maps, we have the maps
in three forms: (i) archival scan, (ii) cropped to map
edge with white background, and (iii) non-cropped white
background, in tiff and jpeg derivatives.
Our topo maps are all out of
copyright, and we are currently planning to provide
public access to the 600+ archival JPEGs through the
library’s website. We are hoping that other institutions
will be able to help us fill gaps in this collection,
and that we can encourage people who make use of the
maps to contribute their data back to the project (as
georeferenced images, digitized POIs, etc.)
Please feel free to contact me with
any questions, ideas, and suggestions. I’m looking
forward to letting you know how you can access the maps
in the coming weeks.
Sincerely,
Sarah
Sarah Simpkin
Bibliothécaire spécialisée en SIG et
géographie |
GIS and Geography Librarian
Université
d’Ottawa | University of Ottawa
309E, Bibliothèque
Morisset Library
Tél.
| Tel: 613-562-5800 (3093)