I am kind of working in this field so forgive this shameless plug.
Look at http://help.oldmapsonline.org/. In this project we document and develop tools that can be used to put old maps online. One of them is our MapTiler (http://www.maptiler.org/). However, as you noted, if you want to create overlays your maps have to be georeferenced. There are two ways.
1) If your maps are not older than late 18th century and you know their projections and coordinate systems, providing coordinates of map corners is enough.
2) For older maps the usual method is by providing ground control points. Basically you mark the same locations on your map and some reference map. From this you can calculate distortion, affine transformation etc.
If you publish your maps as Zoomify (see the oldmapsonline.org site on how to do it), you can use our Georeferencer (http://www.georeferencer.org/) to do the ground control points georeferencing. Than you get KML for Google Earth and WMS which can be viewed in OpenLayers webviewer. Examples of both viewers are on the Georeferencer too. Or you can just download the worldfile that was generated and use it to crate GDAL VRT dataset or something.
I live in Czech Republic and we have had IDs ever since. I realy don't understand why are so many people complaining. In my country it is only a piece of plastic with photo, name, adress etc. I doesn't have a radio beacon that signals my position to the government. Neither it is used to gain acces to public places or to upload any data. It is used only for identification, probably in the same way as US citizens use their driving license. And of course by the police when they want to know to whom they are talking to. Where is the big deal then?
> Why they celebrate birthdays and not conception days (they're so adamant at trying to control non-believers definitions of "life").
Celebrating birthdays is almost universal human custom, it has nothing to do with "definition of life" or christian belief at all.
> Why they believe one ascends to heaven immediately upon a man saying they are dead.
This is not a part of christian belief. Some people calling themselfs "christians" might believe it but it doesn't mean it is a church dogma.
> Why they believe that one who has no brain activity but body life might still be considered alive on this earth.
I suppose it is based on presumption that brain activity in living body could be somehow reinitiatied. However, if the body is dead the brain is dead as well (it has no activity) i.e. the human is dead.
In fact, Nazis were so disappointed with effects of amphetamines that they developed a whole new drug called Pervitin. Wehrmacht soldiers were issued with Pervitin and its intended use was to inhibit pain. But it also made the soldiers nearly mad. They thought they were invulnerable and they thinking was not straight. Harry Thuerk described this in his book "Die Stunde der toten Augen" (Hour of The Dead Eyes in english, probably). Metamphetamines were used by RAF and USAF pilots on long flights over Germany to keep them awake. The flights took about 8--12 hours so it was quite necessary.
I don't see, why should it be called "a milestone". In my country (Czech Republic) almost all PC vendors let user choose whick OS he/she wants. Besides Windows and Linux they also provide FreeDOS. I think there is a law forbidding selling computer set without operating system, so this is a way to go for people who want to install they own system and dont't want to pay for Windows.
I don't know what is usual in USA but I would expect the same. Can someone explain it to me, please?
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I am kind of working in this field so forgive this shameless plug.
Look at http://help.oldmapsonline.org/. In this project we document and develop tools that can be used to put old maps online. One of them is our MapTiler (http://www.maptiler.org/). However, as you noted, if you want to create overlays your maps have to be georeferenced. There are two ways.
1) If your maps are not older than late 18th century and you know their projections and coordinate systems, providing coordinates of map corners is enough.
2) For older maps the usual method is by providing ground control points. Basically you mark the same locations on your map and some reference map. From this you can calculate distortion, affine transformation etc.
If you publish your maps as Zoomify (see the oldmapsonline.org site on how to do it), you can use our Georeferencer (http://www.georeferencer.org/) to do the ground control points georeferencing. Than you get KML for Google Earth and WMS which can be viewed in OpenLayers webviewer. Examples of both viewers are on the Georeferencer too. Or you can just download the worldfile that was generated and use it to crate GDAL VRT dataset or something.
I live in Czech Republic and we have had IDs ever since. I realy don't understand why are so many people complaining. In my country it is only a piece of plastic with photo, name, adress etc. I doesn't have a radio beacon that signals my position to the government. Neither it is used to gain acces to public places or to upload any data. It is used only for identification, probably in the same way as US citizens use their driving license. And of course by the police when they want to know to whom they are talking to. Where is the big deal then?
Some dev teams from Czech Republic:
Illusion Softworks: Hidden & Dangerous, Mafia, Vietcong
Bohemia Interactive Studio: Operation Flashpoint
I think these games are quite popular, at least in Europe.
> Why they celebrate birthdays and not conception days (they're so adamant at trying to control non-believers definitions of "life").
Celebrating birthdays is almost universal human custom, it has nothing to do with "definition of life" or christian belief at all.
> Why they believe one ascends to heaven immediately upon a man saying they are dead.
This is not a part of christian belief. Some people calling themselfs "christians" might believe it but it doesn't mean it is a church dogma.
> Why they believe that one who has no brain activity but body life might still be considered alive on this earth.
I suppose it is based on presumption that brain activity in living body could be somehow reinitiatied. However, if the body is dead the brain is dead as well (it has no activity) i.e. the human is dead.
(Excuse my poor English, please)
In fact, Nazis were so disappointed with effects of amphetamines that they developed a whole new drug called Pervitin. Wehrmacht soldiers were issued with Pervitin and its intended use was to inhibit pain. But it also made the soldiers nearly mad. They thought they were invulnerable and they thinking was not straight. Harry Thuerk described this in his book "Die Stunde der toten Augen" (Hour of The Dead Eyes in english, probably). Metamphetamines were used by RAF and USAF pilots on long flights over Germany to keep them awake. The flights took about 8--12 hours so it was quite necessary.
I don't see, why should it be called "a milestone". In my country (Czech Republic) almost all PC vendors let user choose whick OS he/she wants. Besides Windows and Linux they also provide FreeDOS. I think there is a law forbidding selling computer set without operating system, so this is a way to go for people who want to install they own system and dont't want to pay for Windows. I don't know what is usual in USA but I would expect the same. Can someone explain it to me, please?
I use mbrfix http://www.sysint.no/Nedlasting/MbrFix.zip
Documentation: http://www.sysint.no/Nedlasting/MbrFix.htm
It works just fine for me. You run it directly from WinXP.
In czech language it is kída -- krida without diacritics.