Digital maps Halloween tagathon, October 2014

A digital maps Halloween tagathon, at the British Library

The British Library and Wikimedia UK invite you to a day-long Digital maps Halloween tagathon event on Friday 31 October, to be followed by an online campaign to Sunday 2 November. The aim of the campaign is to go through Wikimedia’s online index to the Mechanical Curator collection and add the Flickr tag "map" to every image that represents a map or a ground-plan. Tagging the maps means they can be included in the next round of the BL Georeferencer, which is the key to making them findable and meaningfully uploadable en-masse to Wikimedia Commons. 3,000 maps have already been found and georeferenced, including the above  map of Cerro de Pasco in Peru from a 1868 book. But an estimated 10,000 more maps in Flickr are still undiscovered. The aim of the campaign is to find and tag them all. Also in the event at the BL will be short talks about various digital mapping activities, a special tour of the BL's maps area, and free Halloween entry to the Library's atmospheric current major exhibition, Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination. Further information, and sign-up, at http://goo.gl/KeSEIr :c:Commons:British Library/Mechanical Curator collection/map tag campaign