Georeferencing of historical maps – second round concluded

2016/06/27

The second phase of our georefencing project took less than four weeks to be concluded although this time the maps were significantly more difficult to assign due to a greater number of maps in handdrawing or cyrillic script.

Again more than 40 volunteers participated in the project. All in all in both phases 75 persons assigned 20,000 control points in 886 maps. Many thanks to all participants!

Our top 3 georeferencers were

Phase 1 (December 2015): Ralf H. Schneider (3649 control points); Philip (2157); Fabian Arnold (1041)
Phase 2 (June 2016): Ingo (3138 control points); Pascal Nehrkorn (1204); Oceanguard (1125)

Certainly all participants can register for the exclusive guided tour through our map collection (karten@ulb.tu-darmstadt.de) which will presumably take place by the end of August/beginning of September 2016.