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Subject:        Crowdsourcing the past -- georeferencing website puts historic
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Date:   Mon, 25 Feb 2013 08:45:51 -0600 (CST)
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Jim Walsh

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Subject: Crowdsourcing the past -- georeferencing website puts historic
maps in their place (British Library)

Crowdsourcing the past -- georeferencing website puts historic maps in
their place (British Library press release, Jan. 28, 2013)

"The British Library is calling on members of the public to help in a
digital quest to reveal the hidden context of historic maps. 800 items
have been selected for the Georeferencer Project from the British
Library's collection of over 4.5 million maps. The georeferencing
interface enables people to plot locations on historic maps by comparing
a digitized image with present-day online maps. By choosing points that
correspond between the historic map and the present, the user generates
an overlay in Google Earth allowing us to see how areas have changed and
developed over time giving a modern day context for maps up to 400 years
old."

Read more at
http://pressandpolicy.bl.uk/Press-Releases/Crowdsourcing-the-past-georeferencing-website-puts-historic-maps-in-their-place-5f1.aspx