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Georeferenced maps from the Mechanical Curator 50,000 edit

Wikimedia and the British Library are trying to georeference over 50,000 old maps and plans found in the Mechanical Curator collection, a set of 1 million images extracted from digitised 19th century books. (See here for more information).

This page links to the maps and plans that have already been georeferenced. For maps and plans still available to georeference, go to the accompanying georeferencing status page and follow any of the purple  to georef templated links there for each of the book-level index pages to the collection.

Progress edit

72.5% completed

   

36402 images georeferenced since March 2015
To see georeferenced images
This page links to images that have been georeferenced for each subject-index page created based on the books' titles
  • Choose any of the  georef done templated links on the right with the gold backgrounds, and click to see images from a particular (book-level) subject area;
  • click through to the Flickr page for an individual image, and scroll the page down to find a link "View this map on the BL Georeferencer service".
  • then click on this to open the image in Georeferencer, superimposed on a modern map, with controls to zoom in or out and fade the image up or down.

There is also a corresponding georeferencing status page listing images still to do.


Other ways to find georeferenced images
  • A map which can be zoomed in, with a clickable link to each georeferenced map, can be found on this page at the BL
  • It is also possible to make precise searches for maps and plans from particular places, as described here, optionally specifying a given real-world size, for example [1]


For further questions and comments, see the main georeferencing campaign page, and/or feel free to start a new section on its talk page.

Georeferencing done (see also still to do):

For the full list of index pages, see Synoptic index and Synoptic index/to do

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