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The Great Britain Historical GIS (or GBHGIS) is a spatially enabled database that documents and visualises the changing human geography of the British Isles, [1] although is primarily focussed on the subdivisions of the United Kingdom mainly over the 200 years since the first census in 1801.
The Ordnance Survey Great Britain County Series maps were produced from the 1840s to the 1890s by the Ordnance Survey, with revisions published until the 1940s.The series mapped the counties of Great Britain at both a six inch and twenty-five inch scale with accompanying acreage and land use information.
In September 2015 the history of the Ordnance Survey was the subject of a BBC Four TV documentary entitled A Very British Map: The Ordnance Survey Story. [52] On 10 June 2019 the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) appointed Steve Blair as the Chief Executive of the Ordnance Survey.
OpenStreetMap (abbreviated OSM) is a free, open map database updated and maintained by a community of volunteers via open collaboration. [4] Contributors collect data from surveys, trace from aerial photo imagery or satellite imagery, and import from other freely licensed geodata sources.
British History Online began with a one-year pilot project in 2002 (Version 1.0), and Version 5.0 was launched in December 2014. [11] Version 5.0 contains a number of new features, including subject guides for local, parliamentary and urban history, [12] and a new viewer for the site's collection of historical and Epoch 1 Ordnance Survey maps.
The Scottish counties have their origins in the 'sheriffdoms' first created in the reign of Alexander I (1107–24) and extended by David I (1124–53). The sheriff, operating from a royal castle, was the strong hand of the king in his sheriffdom with all embracing duties – judicial, military, financial and administrative.
The Campaign for Historic Counties is dedicated to campaigning, both in the public arena and among parliamentarians, for the restoration of historic counties. Their objectives are: [71] Maps, roads and addresses to included historic counties as standard; Removal of the word 'county' from all local council names
Charting North America, maps and atlases in the New York Public Library Digital Collection; Ryhiner Collection Composite atlas with maps, plans and views from the 16th-18th centuries, covering the globe, with about 16,000 images in total.