Opening historical maps for community mashups - a case study of the NLS Historical Maps API

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

čeština

Original language name

Opening historical maps for community mashups - a case study of the NLS Historical Maps API

Original language description

This paper examines the NLS Historical Maps API, launched in May 2010, and its usage over the following two years. The Historical Maps API is a web service allowing historical out-of-copyright maps from the 1920s to the 1940s of Great Britain to be embedded in other websites, and then used as backdrop for other data, or to create derivative work such as OpenStreetMap. The background to the API and the choice of map series is discussed. The technical development of the API, and the use of MapTiler and Tileserver is described, as is the choice of Creative Commons licensing, and the subsequent launch and promotion of the API. Over the following two years the API has recorded 841,000 visits and 1,462,000 page views. It has been used in a very wide range ofwebsites, including those devoted to outdoor recreation (walking, cycling, climbing, canoeing), archaeology (portable antiquities and metal detecting), family history, local history, railways, photography, teaching, and archives. A numbe

Czech name

Opening historical maps for community mashups - a case study of the NLS Historical Maps API

Czech description

This paper examines the NLS Historical Maps API, launched in May 2010, and its usage over the following two years. The Historical Maps API is a web service allowing historical out-of-copyright maps from the 1920s to the 1940s of Great Britain to be embedded in other websites, and then used as backdrop for other data, or to create derivative work such as OpenStreetMap. The background to the API and the choice of map series is discussed. The technical development of the API, and the use of MapTiler and Tileserver is described, as is the choice of Creative Commons licensing, and the subsequent launch and promotion of the API. Over the following two years the API has recorded 841,000 visits and 1,462,000 page views. It has been used in a very wide range ofwebsites, including those devoted to outdoor recreation (walking, cycling, climbing, canoeing), archaeology (portable antiquities and metal detecting), family history, local history, railways, photography, teaching, and archives. A numbe

Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

AF - Documentation, librarianship, work with information

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/DF11P01OVV003" target="_blank" >DF11P01OVV003: TEMAP - Technology for access to Czech map collections: methodology and software for protection and re-use of national cartographic heritage</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2012

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

Proceedings of the 7th Workshop Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage [CD-ROM].

ISBN

960-7999-18-5

ISSN

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e-ISSN

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Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

1-11

Publisher name

ICA Commission on Digital Technologies in Cartographic Heritage

Place of publication

Vídeň

Event location

Barcelona

Event date

Apr 19, 2012

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

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