Where was I today? 10th November 2016

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Re: Where was I today? 10th November 2016

« Reply #15 on: November 11, 2016, 00:25:53 »

Quote from: bignosemac on November 11, 2016, 00:16:48

It seems to be that NLS^▸ has stolen a march on others in digitising old, out of copyright, UK^▸ maps. Others have done so, but not as comprehensively or as user friendly.

NLS has quickly established itself as the go to place online for historic UK mapping. It easily beats the limited free content from Ordnance Survey.

I think they've done what they've done because they can. That they are Scottish based is largely irrelevant.

That's pretty much my view. They seem to have a more open view of copyright in the digitised image itself than some other libraries, and were keen to put their Scottish maps collection on line. Having done that, and made a reasonably effective user interface, they just kept going through the rest of their UK map collection.

I have also found their WW1 trench maps very helpful, and note they have georeferenced some of them too.


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« Reply #16 on: November 11, 2016, 00:26:25 »

I've no problem at all with them being the National Library of Scotland: it was the "All of which is to be seen on the 1906 OS^▸ 6" map, available from NLS^▸ (Nailsea & Backwell station)" in stuving's post that spooked me! Shocked


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Re: Where was I today? 10th November 2016

« Reply #17 on: November 11, 2016, 00:36:47 »

Quote from: Chris from Nailsea on November 11, 2016, 00:26:25

Or do you mean "available from NLS"? In the past that would, idiomatically, usually mean "for sale". Now, I'm not so sure - it's available to see, or available on line, which I guess is what counts today.


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« Reply #18 on: November 11, 2016, 00:47:40 »

I shall set up a stall tomorrow at NLS^▸ and see if I can flog any of them. All proceeds to charity. Grin


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« Reply #19 on: November 12, 2016, 07:56:11 »

Anyone else tried sliding the blue dot in the bottom left corner on the NLS^▸ map? Now that's clever...


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Re: Where was I today? 10th November 2016

« Reply #20 on: November 12, 2016, 12:16:53 »

Quote from: old original on November 12, 2016, 07:56:11

Anyone else tried sliding the blue dot in the bottom left corner on the NLS^▸ map? Now that's clever...

That's why I linked to that georeferenced presentation, as it was appropriate to the topic. It's also an example of what I meant by "a reasonably effective user interface"; the site is a bit clunky, but the technical display of the maps is very competent.

What you lose with the georeferencing is a choice of all the dated maps and series for a place. Obviously the seamless georeferenced map layer needs a nearly complete set of maps of a similar age. Since navigating from a linked page is a bit limited, and in any case some sideways links are missing, here's a tip - if in doubt, go to "Map home", then down through the menus. Then avoid the top two UK^▸ -wide series, which are only library indexes without linked images.

I see that they have recently added some more huge-scale (1:500) English town plans, all of them south-west of Cheltenham so some are quite small places. They date from around 1885, and cover 24 towns in all - including (yes!) Taunton, though not Melksham...


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Re: Where was I today? 10th November 2016

« Reply #21 on: November 12, 2016, 13:37:01 »

These NLS^▸ on-line maps may be very useful to us, but of course there are losers. I got a catalogue through the mail yesterday from Alan Godfrey Maps, from whom I've bought quite a few reproduced OS^▸ maps in the past. It's going to be hard to justify buying any more if they are on line, isn't it?


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