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Re:Open Maps for Europe: access official map, geospatial and... by paganel on Thursday September 23, 2021 @09:01AM (#28628482)
Slightly related to this, do you happen to know more about this topographic map [1] of Bulgaria and its surroundings?

[1] http://web.uni-plovdiv.bg/vedrin/#section2

I was curious if it be possible to somehow integrate the data from there on a geo-referenced map, maybe there are some instructions on that page pertaining to that but unfortunately I do not know Bulgarian.

I'm one of your neighbours from the North (I'm Romanian) and one of my side-projects involves geo-locating some toponyms that I find interesting (like toponyms indicating the names of some fortifications, for example, which would be gradishte in Bulgarian if I'm not mistaken). For the territory of Romania I managed to do that by integrating some Romanian military topographic maps with OpenLayers, I was thinking of extending my project to the entire Balkan area (that's why integrating those topographic maps of Bulgaria with something like OpenLayers or Leaflet would help me immensely).

Re:Open Maps for Europe: access official map, geospatial and... by phoronixrly on Thursday September 23, 2021 @09:33AM (#28628875)
> Slightly related to this, do you happen to know more about this topographic map [1] of Bulgaria and its surroundings?

This is the first time I see this map. I will definitely look into it.

The only official topo maps I know of are the ones produced in M1:5000 in the 50s to 70s and the M1:10000 produced in the 70s-80s. They're sold in a raster format by the sheet, so are completely useless to you.

On the toponyms part though, there's the official registry of toponyms that is openly accessible but not open-data. You can download it in its entirety thereby breaking copyright law:

https://geonames.cadastre.bg/

Here's a preview of a search for "градище": https://i.imgur.com/7NPFoPz.png

Note the EU funds info box and annoyingly the copyright label below it.

Re:Open Maps for Europe: access official map, geospatial and... by paganel on Thursday September 23, 2021 @09:38AM (#28628940)
> toponyms that is openly accessible but not open-data. Y

Thank you a lot, that helps.

> Here's a preview of a search for "градище":https://i.imgur.com/7NPFoPz.png

That helps even more, thank you again!

I'm not doing this for any monetary gains and most probably the data/project will only be accessed by a handful of people really interested in this sort of stuff, so hopefully no-one will come after me :)