1. Tim Waters Open Historical Maps Putting a map library on the net http://thinkwhere.wordpress.com @tim_waters Geothings & Entropy Free

4. Emerging Geo Stack

8. http://www.flickr.com/photos/stabilo-boss/

9. http://www.flickr.com/photos/havovubu/3728604649/

10. Crowdsourcing ? “I find the term incredibly irritating... Any company that thinks it’s going to build a site by outsourcing all the work to its users not only disrespects the users but completely misunderstands what it should be doing. Your job is to provide a structure for your users to Collaborate, and that takes a lot of work”. Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia

12. Making people happy to put your maps on the interwebs and trace over them for you!

13. Core Technology – traditional GIS stuff. Georectification Digitization

14. Entropy Free http://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg /

15. Isothermal chart, or, View of climates & productions / drawn from the accounts of Humboldt & others, by W.C. Woodbridge. 1843

16. A new systeme of the mathematicks: containing I. Arithmetick,.... 1681

17. The English Empire in America.from Atlas minimus, or, A book of geography : shewing all the empires, monarchies, kingdomes, regions, dominions, principalities and countries, in the whole world 1679

18. Sacrifice Island. from America: being the latest, and most accurate description o f the Nevv vvorld 1671

20. http://dev.maps.nypl.org/warper/layers/86 3

23. Um, huh?

27. DEMO http://dev.maps.nypl.org/warper/ Map: Manhattan http://dev.maps.nypl.org/warper/mapscans/15327 A new & accurate plan of the city of New York in the state of New York in North America, published in 1797. Layer: Brooklyn http://dev.maps.nypl.org/warper/layers/867 1886 Robinson's atlas of the city of Brooklyn, New York : embracing all territory within its corporate limits; from official records... / by and under the supervision of E. Robinson and R.H. Pidgeon, civil engineers. KML: World A new and correct SEA CHART of the WHOLE WORLD from The sea-atlas : containing an hydrographical description of most of the sea-coasts of the known parts of the world http://dev.maps.nypl.org/warper/mapscans/12602.kml KML: Manhattan Redraft of the Castello Plan, New Amsterdam in 1660. http://dev.maps.nypl.org/warper/mapscans/13913.kml

28. Layers: Buildings Districts Points of Interest Transport Network Hydrography

32. Conclusions

33. http://dev.maps.nypl.org/warper Find me for beta login details or email tim@geothings.net http://warper.geothings.nethttp://warper.geothings.net Have a go now! Future: Dynamic HTML5 space age stuff Open Historical Map

34. http://thinkwhere.wordpress.com @tim_waters Geothings & Entropy Free