Historic Maps, part 2

Sunday, January 9. 2011

The issues with Historic Maps at the Library of Congress turns out to have a happy ending.
The Linux tool to convert them from MrSID to jpg is available from LizardTech, and while it didn't work in an old copy of Fedora, or a current copy of CentOS 5, it did work in Ubuntu 10.1. So I have converted all 16 images from the LOC site to jpg.
The other good news is that as a product of the US Government (not to mention having been published before 1922), they are public domain. I'm uploading full sized jpgs to Flickr right now, will post a followup when they're ready.

Posted by Richard Welty in Maps at 21:37 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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