This is a terrific resource. Hats off all round!
Two quick things:
- In theory it should be straightforward to import these into QGIS (or
your GIS of choice) using a GDAL WMS description:
http://www.3liz.com/blog/rldhont/index.php?post/2012/07/17/OpenStreetMap-Tiles-in-QGIS
In practice however, I get the frame but no content (just a black or
other-coloured square)
I _have_ managed to use them by hacking the Open Layers plugin and I'm
happy to show anyone show to do this but essentially (in OSX) you
just go to:
/Users/[your user name]/.qgis2/python/plugins/openlayers_plugin/html/
and edit one of the html files to point to the tile service. This
isn't a terribly elegant solution though. If anyone can figure out a
working GDAL template I'd be very grateful (and I imagine others would
be too).
- Pelagios also has an open tile service for the tiles developed by
Johan Åhlfeldt (they complement the AWMC tiles nicely in fact). We
haven't made a big thing about it because of possible issues with
server load, but perhaps we could mirror AWMC tiles in return for
mirroring ours? If anyone else wants to use them in the meantime then
get in touch.
All the best
Leif
On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Tom Elliott <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I thought some here would be interested:
>
> http://awmc.unc.edu/wordpress/blog/2014/02/03/new-public-map-tiles-and-antiquity-a-la-carte-3-0-beta/
>
> "The AWMC is proud to announce the release of a series of geographically accurate, publicly accessible map tiles (http://awmc.unc.edu/wordpress/tiles/ ), suitable for use in nearly any web mapping application or GIS software suite… Along with our tiles, The Ancient World Mapping Center is also releasing a beta version of Antiquity à la Carte 3.0 (http://awmc.unc.edu/awmc/applications/carte-transitional/)…”
>
>
> Tom Elliott, Ph.D.
> Associate Director for Digital Programs and Senior Research Scholar
> Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (NYU)
> http://isaw.nyu.edu/people/staff/tom-elliott
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