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Digimap is a web mapping and online data delivery service developed by the EDINA national data centre for UK academia. It offers a range of on-line mapping and data download facilities which provide maps and spatial data from Ordnance Survey, British Geological Survey, Landmark Information Group and OceanWise Ltd Ltd., (marine mapping data and charts from the UK Hydrographic Office ...
Scale of ten statute miles to one inch. 1:633 600 maps from 1904 (British Library shelfmark Maps 1125.(14.)). The Ordnance Survey First Series. These were created over several decades during the mid-19th century, and the GB Historical GIS uses the earliest state for each sheet held by the British Library. The least detailed nineteenth century ...
The Ordnance Survey began producing six inch to the mile (1:10,560) maps of Great Britain in the 1840s, modelled on its first large-scale maps of Ireland from the mid-1830s. This was partly in response to the Tithe Commutation Act 1836 which led to calls for a large-scale survey of England and Wales .
Part of an Ordnance Survey map, at the scale of one inch to the mile, from a New Popular Edition map published in 1946 Pollokshaws on Roy's Military Survey of Scotland (1747–1755) [1] The Ordnance Survey ( OS ) is the national mapping agency for Great Britain. [ 2 ]
The Land Cover Map of Great Britain (1990) was the first comprehensive survey since the Second Land Use Survey. This used satellite imagery, with ground survey used for checking. [ 9 ] The end product is a digital dataset rather than paper mapping, providing classification of land cover types into 25 classes, at a 25m (or greater) resolution.
Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Graphic and Accurate Description of Every Place in Scotland is a book by Francis Hindes Groome.It was published in 1901, by T. C. and E. C. Jack of Edinburgh, combining six volumes (titled Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical, and Historical) written between 1884 and 1885, along with initial revisions made ...
The first Ramsden theodolite as used by Roy. (Destroyed by bomb damage in 1941.) In the aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1745 it was recognised that there was a need for an accurate map of the Scottish Highlands and the necessary survey was initiated in 1747 by Lieutenant-Colonel David Watson, a Deputy Quartermaster-General of the Board of Ordnance.
The National Collection of Aerial Photography is a photographic archive in Edinburgh, Scotland, containing over 30 million aerial photographs of worldwide historic events and places. From 2008–2015 it was part of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland [ 1 ] and since then it has been a sub-brand of Historic ...