Participants
The British Library welcomes participation in this effort to georeference its treasures of historic mapping. The outcomes will greatly enhance knowledge and access to these maps in a new and engaging way, and will enable them to be reused and developed in future.
The second batch of maps opened up to the public for georeferencing has been completed for now; more maps will be added soon!
To view the maps that have already been placed, their locations, and the submitting participant, see Maps already georeferenced. All may be further georeferenced and visualised in Google Earth.
Below are the crowdsourcing tools that monitor activity from participants. Sue White and Maurice Nicholson, whose contributions in points remained close over several days, were identified as the top contributors when the second set of maps were completed 2 November. The below graphics track ongoing contributions!
The top contributors are:
Top contrib
utors pie chart (control points)
Points per contributor
Activity timeline
Network graph of contributions (people connected via maps)
Overall progress of BL Georeferencer, including first phase in Feb 2012
If you wish to discuss the project with our technical developers, please join our User Group. If you have questions regarding the maps or this project, or woudl like to be notified once more maps become available, contact georeferencer@bl.uk.