Comments on: Ryhiner maps collection

Ryhiner maps collection

Kattullus — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:29:23 -0800

The Ryhiner Collection of maps has over 16000 images of world maps from 16th through 19th century. There are maps of every part of the world as well as sky maps, historical maps and optical views, caricatures & other drawings. All are viewable in high detail.

By: redsparkler

redsparkler — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:02:28 -0800

Huzzah! Old maps + high detail are a winning recipe for my affections.

By: seanmpuckett

seanmpuckett — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:03:28 -0800

Some of the maps are oversharpened to the extreme; other images are okay. Nice find, though I don't like Zoomify much.

By: vito90

vito90 — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:12:38 -0800

This is me favoriting this post. Thanks for the link.

By: signal

signal — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:54:37 -0800

Beautiful maps. Too bad about the crappy viewer. However in the case of, for example, the map at: http://www.zb.unibe.ch/maps/ryhiner/sammlung/index.php?group=volume&dir=1001&pic=Ryh_1001_10.jpg the component jpegs' are located at: http://www.zb.unibe.ch/maps/ryhiner/images/zoomify/1001/Ryh_1001_10/TileGroup0/ & http://www.zb.unibe.ch/maps/ryhiner/images/zoomify/1001/Ryh_1001_10/TileGroup1/ so it shouldn't be too hard to write a script to download and composite together a whole map.

By: Kattullus

Kattullus — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:03:28 -0800

If someone would write such a script, that would be amazing.

By: signal

signal — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:04:10 -0800

Doing a test run, the first number is the zoom level, and second the x coordinate and the 3rd the y coordinate, so 0-0-0.jpg is the whole map at thumbnail size, 1-0-0.jpg is the top left corner at the first zoom in level, etc.

By: signal

signal — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:05:52 -0800

Oh, and you can see the available TileGroup folders one level up: http://www.zb.unibe.ch/maps/ryhiner/images/zoomify/1001/Ryh_1001_10/ If I have time, Kattullus, I'll write something tonight. If not, isn't it time you learnt Python already?

By: Kabanos

Kabanos — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:09:31 -0800

Very nice post! I've got a couple of those maps of Ukraine.

By: Kattullus

Kattullus — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:15:36 -0800

signal: If not, isn't it time you learnt Python already? I'll get right on that once I've learned Latin, Parsi, HTML and how to make a proper moo shu tofu.

By: Kattullus

Kattullus — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:19:24 -0800

Oh, and how to say Farsi.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:53:59 -0800

Holy crap, this is wonderful. Here's Moscow in 1771, before they created the artificial island in the river across from the Kremlin that separates the central city from Zamoskvorechye (and, of course, before the place burned down in 1812). I don't find the interface that big a problem, but it annoys me that I have to click on "Bibliographic record" to find out what the image is; couldn't they have put that information on the same page? But the hell with the quibbles—thanks for the post! And to show my appreciation: in English it's FAR-see, in Farsi it's pretty much for-SEE, with a Spanish/Italian-style r. (It's the adjective from Fārs, which is the modern form of older Pārs, from Old Persian Pārsa, which gave rise to Greek Persis, hence Latin Persia, hence the older English name for Iran.)

By: languagehat

languagehat — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:54:56 -0800

Oops, you were just correcting your typo. Ah well, erudition wasted once again, like my never-finished dissertation.

By: ruwan

ruwan — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:47:47 -0800

Goodbye productivity.

By: desjardins

desjardins — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:14:54 -0800

Mmmm, maps.

By: senterstyle

senterstyle — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:53:31 -0800

Here's a python script I found to create a stitched picture... too bad I can't get it to work. http://www.staremapy.cz/zoomify-analyza/

By: senterstyle

senterstyle — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:54:03 -0800

linked http://www.staremapy.cz/zoomify-analyza/