Dear all,
I am currently in the process of creating a map room in my house, to store my collection of maps. I was able to get hold of 3x3 sets of wooden map chests from where I work, which houses some of the maps flat. However these alone are not enough to house my collection.
Does anyone know where I might still buy or get hold of additional wooden map chests? I know metal ones are still made but being prone to static shocks now and again, I feel I might prefer wood ones.
I am also looking at getting or making a light table. If anyone has any ideas I'd also be grateful. Someone else suggested a poster ad type screen, which I'm also going to investigate.
My eventual aim is to purchase a large format scanner, at least 42" in width, so that I scan the parts of my collection that are out of copyright. Hopefully I may then find a way of putting them on-line for others to use. Although I've done previous work using Oracle Spatial, I've not investigated how I would do this cheaply without such software. As it will be a few years before I start any scanning, the technology may change in the mean time.
Kind regards
Tim
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