Over 3,000 (primarily) 19thc maps in books from the British Library
collections have been extracted from the scanned volumes and are available online
for georeferencing and overlaying. The images are public domain and may be
downloaded from Flickr (jpeg), and the overlays (kml) and coordinate data (wld)
from BL Georeferencer.
Release to the public for crowdsourced georeferencing opened this morning at http://www.bl.uk/maps/
Maps placed today - a mere 3% - can be perused geographically here - a nice global scattering!
http://www.bl.uk/maps/georeferencingmap.html
Lead Curator, Digital Mapping
The British Library
96 Euston Rd.
London NW1 2DB
Tel: +44 (0)20 7412 7849