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You can also <a href="innes/about.html#download">download the data</a>.</p> <br clear="all" /> </ul> <a name="anzmaps"></a> <h3>ANZMapS - map viewers for putting <em>Historical Maps Online</em></h3> <p>A <a href="geocart2018/">set of viewers</a> which can be used for putting <em>Historical Maps Online</em>.</p> <div class="floatright"><a href="geocart2018/"><img src="img/anzmaps-viewers.jpg" width="250" height="185" border="0" alt="Historical Maps Online viewers graphic" /></a></div> <ul> <li>These viewers were put together for a half-day <a href="https://cartography.org.nz/anzmaps2018/historical-maps-online/">workshop</a> as part of the <a href="https://cartography.org.nz/geocart2018">GeoCart'2018</a> conference in Wellington, New Zealand, 5-7 September 2018. The workshop was kindly supported by the <a href="https://www.anzmaps.org/">Australian and New Zealand Map Society</a>.</li> <li>The workshop focused on using open-source tools, particularly <a href="https://openlayers.org/">OpenLayers</a> and <a href="http://geoserver.org/">GeoServer</a>, to build a set of basic map viewers.</li> <li>The <a href="geocart2018/">viewers</a> included those focusing on search and retrieval of maps (using clickable indexes, bounding boxes, and marker pins), and those focused on displaying georeferenced maps (with transparency sliders, split-screen viewers, spy viewers, and 3D viewers.</li> </ul> <br clear="all" /> <a name="douglass"></a> <h3>Frederick Douglass in Edinburgh and Scotland - map viewers</h3> <ul> <div class="floatright"><a href="douglass/"><img src="img/douglass.jpg" width="250" height="185" border="0" alt="Frederick Douglass in Edinburgh and Scotland - map viewers graphic" /></a></div> <li>These <a href="douglass/">map viewers</a> form part of the <a href="https://www.ed.ac.uk/literatures-languages-cultures/research/current-projects/our-bondage-and-our-freedom" >Our Bondage and Our Freedom project</a>, celebrating the 200 year anniversary of the birth of African American activist and author, Frederick Douglass, in 2018. </li> <li>They include a <a href="douglass/">map of the places in Edinburgh</a> where Frederick Douglass lived, held meetings and gave speeches during his antislavery campaign.</li> <li>There are also map viewers showing <a href="douglass/abolitionists.html">Black Abolitionists in Edinburgh</a>, and of <a href="douglass/scotland.html">Frederick Douglass in Scotland</a>. </ul> <br clear="all" /> <a name="italians"></a> <h3>Family Portrait: the Scots-Italians 1890-1940</h3> <p>A <a href="italians/">map showing where Italians lived or worked in Scotland</a> during the 1930s.</p> <div class="floatright"><a href="italians/"><img src="img/italians.jpg" width="250" height="185" border="0" alt="Family Portrait: the Scots-Italians 1890-1940 graphic" /></a></div> <ul> <li>This map has been created to accompany the free exhibition <em>Family Portrait: The Scots Italians 1890 – 1940</em> at National Records of Scotland, Edinburgh, 3 December 2015 - 29 January 2016.</li> <li>The names and addresses are primarily based on the Scottish entries in the 1936 edition of the <em>Guida Generale Degli Italiani in Gran Bretagna (General Guide to Italians in Great Britain</em>, published in London). </li> </ul> <br clear="all" /> <a name="gremlin"></a> <h3>GREMLIN Map Viewers</h3> <div class="floatright"><a href="gremlin/"><img src="img/glenkens.png" width="250" height="185" border="0" alt="GREMLIN Map Viewer Graphic" /></a></div> <p><a href="gremlin/">GREMLIN</a> is investigating land use over the last 200 years for the Earlstoun and Holm Estates in the parishes of Balmaclellan, Dalry, and Kells in the Glenkens, Galloway.</p> <p>GREMLIN is the <strong>Glenkens Rectified Estate Mapping and Land use Information Network</strong>. The project began in March 2023, with three main initial aims:</p> <ol> <li>to georeference and seam together 44 estate maps relating to the Earlstoun and Holm Estates</li> <li>to trace the land use from these estate maps, recording the land use parcels as shown on the maps</li> <li>to present these layers of estate mapping and land use information in <a href="gremlin/overlay/">online viewers</a></li> </ol> <p>Read <a href="gremlin/help/">help about the viewers</a> and <a href="gremlin/landuse/">further information on land use</a>.</p> <p>This is a collaborative project between the <a href="https://maps.nls.uk/partners/damp.html">Dumfries Archival Mapping Project</a>, the <a href="https://gallowayglens.org/">Galloway Glens Landscape Partnership</a>, and the <a href="https://maps.nls.uk/">National Library of Scotland</a>. </p> <br clear="all" /> <a name="api"></a> <h3>Historic Maps API layers</h3> <p><strong>A set of detailed historic map layers for use in other websites</strong></p> <div class="floatright"><a href="/projects/api/"><img src="img/subscription-api.jpg" width="250" height="185" border="0" alt="API Graphic" /></a></div> <p> These seamless <a href="/projects/api/">historic mapping API</a> layers provide: </p> <ul> <li>detailed historic map coverage of Great Britain and London</li> <li>very fast and reliable hosting</li> <li>attractive and useful backdrops for your own markers or geographic data</li> <li>quick and easy ability to incorporate inside your own web applications</li> <li>quick and easy ability to add into desktop GIS software</li> <li>conformance with international web-mapping standards</li> </ul> <br clear="all" /> <a name="historic-parks"></a> <h3> Historic parks in England, 1890s-1900s</h3> <p><strong><a href="historic-parks/">Explore historic parks in England between the 1890s and 1900s</a>.</strong></p> <div class="floatright"><a href="historic-parks/"><img src="img/historic-parks.jpg" width="250" height="185" border="0" alt="Woodland in Scotland, 1840s-1880s Graphic" /></a></div> <ul> <li> This collaborative project between Zulu Ecosystems and the Forestry Commission (FC) involved extracting a layer of parkland from Ordnance Survey six-inch 2nd edition maps, using a combination of machine learning, post-processing techniques and manual verification.</li> <li> This digital resource is designed to support efforts in tree planning and landscape conservation, ensuring both accessibility and integrity of the landscape.</li> <li>Corrections are invited on the layer to help improve accuracy (<a href="historic-parks/examples/">View examples</a>). The dataset layer will be updated regularly, and new versions released, to ensure the highest possible accuracy of the layer.</li> <li>A collaborative project with the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/forestry-commission">Forestry Commission</a> (FC) and <a href="https://www.zuluecosystems.com/">Zulu Ecosystems</a>, who have extracted the layer (<a href="historic-parks/info/">Further information</a>).</li> </ul> <a name="irrigation-tanks"></a> <br clear="all" /> <h3>Irrigation Tanks in Southern India</h3> <p><strong>The <a href="irrigation-tanks/">Irrigation Tanks in Southern India</a> viewer is part of a PhD project studying water histories and digital mapping in the Kaveri river catchment</strong></p> <div class="floatright"><a href="https://geo.nls.uk/maps/irrigation-tanks/"><img src="img/irrigation-tanks.jpg" width="250" height="185" border="0" alt="Irrigation Tanks Graphic" /></a></div> <ul> <li>the map highlights irrigation tank features traced from early 20th century Survey of India maps</li> <li>a wetness estimate for tanks can be viewed - read <a href="irrigation-tanks/about.html">further information</a>.</li> <li>a related <a href="irrigation-tanks/coimbatore/">Coimbatore viewer</a> allows fieldwork data including interview transcriptions and photographs to be viewed</li> <li>historic methods of water management, including irrigation tanks, could offer partial solutions to present-day water scarcity problems</li> </ul> <br clear="all" /> <a name="lesmahagow"></a> <h3>Lesmahagow Place Names Database</h3> <p><strong>A <a href="lesmahagow/">map-based interface</a> to a detailed gazetteer of place names in the old parish of Lesmagahow</strong></p> <div class="floatright"><a href="lesmahagow/"><img src="img/lesmahagow.jpg" width="250" height="185" border="0" alt="Lesmahagow Place Names Database" /></a></div> <ul> <li>4,000 records which relate to over 600 place names in the old parish of Lesmagahow</li> <li>view the place names in different orders and search/filter on a text string</li> <li>click on the name to position the map at that location, and select a set of georeferenced maps, from the 12th to the 21st century, for viewing the name geographically</li> <li>useful for family history researchers, local historians, linguistic place name researchers and anyone with an interest in the area</li> </ul> <br clear="all" /> <a name="mapreader"></a> <h3>MapReader - Railspace and Buildings Datasets Viewer</h3> <p><strong>A <a href="mapreader/">viewer</a> for the MapReader railway infrastructure and buildings point datasets</strong></p> <div class="floatright"><a href="mapreader/"><img src="img/mapreader.jpg" width="250" height="185" border="0" alt="MapReader buildings and railways point datasets" /></a></div> <ul> <li>Allows selected outputs from the <a href="https://github.com/Living-with-machines/MapReader">MapReader</a> tool, produced by the <a href="https://livingwithmachines.ac.uk/"><em>Living with Machines</em></a> project.</li> <li>MapReader is an end-to-end computer vision (CV) pipeline for exploring and analyzing images at scale, which is especially well suited to series maps such as the Ordnance Survey collections held by the National Library of Scotland (Read <a href="mapreader/info/">further information</a>).</li> <li>This MapReader project used the National Library of Scotland's Ordnance Survey <a href="https://maps.nls.uk/openlayers/?m=1&id=6">Six-inch to the Mile, 1888-1914 maps</a> of England, Scotland, and Wales, to look for railway infrastructure and buildings.</li> <li>Allows 1,762,152 point records relating to buildings, and 487,360 point records relating to railway infrastructure to be viewed. Zoom in and click on a point record on the map to view detailed information.</li> </ul> <br clear="all" /> <a name="mills-of-britain"></a> <h3>Mills of Britain</h3> <p><strong>A <a href="mills-of-britain/">viewer</a> showing over 15,000 mill sites mapped in 18th-19th century Britain</strong></p> <div class="floatright"><a href="mills-of-britain/"><img src="img/mills-of-britain.jpg" width="250" height="185" border="0" alt="Mills of Britain viewer and mill sites database" /></a></div> <ul> <li>Explore how mills were represented in <a href="/counties/">early county maps</a> and the <a href="/roy/">Roy Military Survey of Scotland.</a></li> <li>Browse and filter <a href="/projects/mills-of-britain">mill locations</a> by survey date, map symbology, and mill type.</li> <li>Learn how early maps <a href="mills-of-britain/project/aims/">inform our understanding</a> of the Industrial Revolution.</li> <li>Read more about this <a href="mills-of-britain/project/">collaborative project</a> with the University of Glasgow and University of Wollongong, funded by the Leverhulme Trust.</li> </ul> <br clear="all" /> <a name="moorland"></a> <h3>Moorland in Scotland (1840s-1880s) viewer</h3> <p><strong>A <a href="moorland/">viewer</a> showing the rough grassland, moorlands and peatlands in Scotland in the mid-19th century. </strong></p> <div class="floatright"><a href="moorland/"><img src="img/moorland.jpg" width="250" height="185" border="0" alt="Urban trees viewer" /></a></div> <ul> <li>Presents the locations of heathy pasture, bogs and mosses identified on Ordnance Survey Six-Inch to the mile maps detected using machine learning methods.</li> <li>Compare moorland with other map layers and more recent land utilisation in a <a href="moorland/side-by-side/" aria-label="Moorland Side by side viewer">Side by side viewer</a>.</li> <li>Computer vision work undertaken by Fraser MacFarlane at the James Hutton Institute. Read <a href="moorland/info">further information</a> about the background and purpose of the project.</li> <li>Corrections are invited on the layer to help improve accuracy.</li> <li>A collaboration with the <a href="https://www.hutton.ac.uk/">James Hutton Institute</a>, using historic maps from the National Library of Scotland.</li> </ul> <br clear="all" /> <a name="os1900s"></a> <h3><span style="background-color:#f8b271;padding:3px">New (Mar 2025)</span> OS 1900 Text Search (GB1900) - Search features / names and their distributions on OS six-inch 1888-1913 maps</h3> <div class="floatright"><a href="os1900/"><img src="img/gb1900.jpg" width="250" height="185" border="0" alt="GB1900 Graphic" /></a></div> <p> The <strong><a href="os1900/">OS 1900 Text Search</a></strong> allows the results of the GB1900 transcriptions to be viewed and exported. The GB1900 Project created a detailed list of 2.5 million place names on Ordnance Survey <a href="https://maps.nls.uk/openlayers/?m=1&id=171">six-inch to the mile maps of Britain</a> (1888-1913).</p> <p>You can view geographic distributions of particular features and name elements. You can also zoom in on any feature, click on it, and read the text. There are also demonstration distributions of features and names - for example, for <a href="gb1900quarry/">quarries and collieries</a>, <a href="gb1900footpath/">'Footpath' names</a>, and <a href="buildings">Public Buildings</a>. The dataset is freely available from the <a href="http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/data/">Vision of Britain data download</a> page.</p> <p>The GB1900 dataset can also be searched in our <a href="/geo/explore">Georeferenced Maps</a> viewer using the <strong>Search OS six-inch 1888-1913 names:</strong> box - read our <a href="/additions.html#55">Recent Additions</a> for further details. <br clear="all" /> <a name="pennant"></a> <h3>Thomas Pennant map tours viewer</h3> <p><strong>A <a href="http://curioustravellers.ac.uk/map/">viewer</a> showing the itineraries of Thomas Pennant and his Tours to Scotland, 1769 and 1772</strong></p> <div class="floatright"><a href="http://curioustravellers.ac.uk/map/"><img src="img/pennant.jpg" width="250" height="185" border="0" alt="Thomas Pennant map viewer" /></a></div> <ul> <li>Shows the three tours of Thomas Pennant to Scotland in 1769 and 1772, as well as Johnson and Boswell's tour of 1773, as a set of clickable locations, giving the dates visited for each place, the form of the name used, and the page in the relevant original tour volumes. </li> <li>The <a href="http://curioustravellers.ac.uk/map/">split-screen viewer</a> allows the routes to be viewed on modern day maps, as well as compared to relevant historical maps from the 18th and 19th centuries.</li> <li>A collaborative map application with the <a href="http://curioustravellers.ac.uk/en/">Curious Travellers Project</a> based at the University of Glasgow and University of Wales, Aberystwyth.</li> </ul> <br clear="all" /> <a name="placeandpoetry"></a> <h3>Place and Poetry in Premodern Scotland (Due for completion: August 2024)</h3> <p><strong><a href="place-and-poetry/">View maps exploring the locations of places within several early-modern Scottish poems</strong></p> <div class="floatright"><a href="woodland/"><img src="img/place-and-poetry.jpg" width="250" border="0" alt="Place and poetry in premodern Scotland Graphic" /></a></div> <ul> <li><a href="place-and-poetry/">This project</a> is examining of the cultural representation of place in premodern Scottish poetry (medieval and early modern periods, c. 1400-1700). </li> <li>It foregrounds place as critical for understanding how premodern Scots experienced their lived and imagined environments. </li> <li>It is dedicated to how places were presented, imagined, and described, in the poetry of premodern Scotland. </li> <li>A collaborative project with <a href="https://www.bristol.ac.uk/">University of Bristol</a>, funded by the <a href="https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/">British Academy</a>.</li> </ul> <br clear="all" /> <a name="landuse"></a> <h3>Scotland - Land Use viewer</h3> <p><strong>A <a href="landuse/">split-screen map viewer</a> for comparing 1930s land use with 2015 land use</strong></p> <div class="floatright"><a href="landuse/"><img src="img/landuse.jpg" width="250" height="185" border="0" alt="Scotland - Land Use viewer" /></a></div> <ul> <li> compare the <a href="/series/land-utilisation-survey/">1930s Land Utilisation Survey maps</a> for Scotland with the <a href="https://hlamap.org.uk/">2015 Historic land use Assessment (HLA Map) layer</a></li> <li> view the significant changes in the Scottish landscape in the 20th century, including afforestation, urbanisation, new reservoirs, and changes to pasture and arable land</li> <li> a collaboratiive project with <a href="https://www.historic-scotland.gov.uk/historicenvironmentscotland">Historic Environment Scotland</a></li> </ul> <br clear="all" /> <a name="mills"></a> <h3>Scottish water mills website</h3> <p><strong>A <a href="mills/">viewer</a> for showing the locations and details of over 9,000 mills in Scotland in the 19th century</strong></p> <div class="floatright"><a href="mills/"><img src="img/mills.jpg" width="250" height="185" border="0" alt="Scottish water mills website" /></a></div> <ul> <li> combines records from the <a href="#gb1900">GB1900 Gazetteer</a> and <a href="https://www.historicenvironment.scot/archives-and-research/archives-and-collections/national-record-of-the-historic-environment/">Canmore</a>, as well as first-hand research based on Ordnance Survey first and second edition mapping.</li> <li> provides options to <a href="mills/">query and filter the mill records</a> by name, mill type, date, and related features.</li> <li> ability to compare distributions of mills side-by-side in a <a href="mills/sidebyside/">split-screen viewer</a>.</li> <li> read supporting information <a href="mills/about.html">about mills in Scotland</a>, the <a href="mills/project.html">project workflow</a>, and how to <a href="mills/download.html">download the mills data</a>.</li> </ul> <br clear="all" /> <a name="stevenson"></a> <h3>The Stevenson Maps and Plans of Scotland, 1660 - 1940</h3> <div class="floatright"><a href="https://maps.nls.uk/projects/stevenson/"><img src="img/stevenson.jpg" width="250" height="185" border="0" alt="Stevenson Maps and Plans of Scotland, 1660 - 1940" /></a></div> <ul> <li>A <a href="https://maps.nls.uk/projects/stevenson/">web resource for exploring over 2,000 records of plans</a> relating to historical engineering in Scotland from the Stevenson archive.</li> <li>Records for Stevenson plans of Scottish places can be viewed, sorted and filtered using a <a href="https://maps.nls.uk/projects/stevenson/">dynamic map interface</a>.</li> <li><a href="https://maps.nls.uk/projects/stevenson/browse/">Browse a full list of the places, subjects and people</a> featured in the plans, or search them by keyword.</li> <li>Read supporting information about the <a href="https://maps.nls.uk/projects/stevenson/about.html">Stevensons</a>, their <a href="https://maps.nls.uk/projects/stevenson/about-plans.html">maps and plans</a>, <a href="https://maps.nls.uk/projects/stevenson/further-resources.html">further resources</a>, and about this <a href="https://maps.nls.uk/projects/stevenson/project.html">project</a>.</li> </ul> <br clear="all" /> <a name="stornoway"></a> <h3>Stornoway and environs historic maps, 1780s-1960s / Mapaichean eachdraidheil Steòrnabhagh agus mun cuairt, 1780s-1960s</h3> <div class="floatright"><a href="https://geo.nls.uk/maps/stornoway/"><img src="img/stornoway.jpg" width="250" height="185" border="0" alt="Stornoway and environs historic maps, 1780s-1960s" /></a></div> <ul> <li>This <a href="stornoway/index-en.html">website</a> is a collaborative project between Western Isles Libraries and the National Library of Scotland. This has seen the <a href="https://blog.nls.uk/conserving-the-map-of-stornoway-by-james-chapman-ca-1800/">conservation</a> and digitisation of historic maps to allow their wider availability online</li> <li><a href="stornoway/index-en.html">Explore a selection of historic maps of Stornoway and environs</a>, dating between 1785-1964, read about them, and view them as georeferenced overlays</li> <li>The maps provide many insights into the development of Stornoway over the last two centuries, including proposals (some not implemented) for its development</li> </ul> <br clear="all" /> <a name="urban-trees"></a> <h3>Urban Trees viewer</h3> <p><strong>A <a href="urban-trees/">viewer</a> showing the locations of over 190,000 trees extracted from OS Town Plans of Edinburgh and Leeds (1888-1894)</strong></p> <div class="floatright"><a href="urban-trees/"><img src="img/urban-trees.jpg" width="250" height="185" border="0" alt="Urban trees viewer" /></a></div> <ul> <li>Presents the locations of coniferous and broadleaved trees identified on Ordnance Survey 1:500 scale maps detected using machine learning methods</li> <li>Part of Elle Smith's PhD project entitled 'Urban Forests through Space and Time'</li> <li>Read <a href="urban-trees/info">further information</a> about the background and purpose of the project, links to the dataset and code, as well as a detailed published paper</li> <li>A collaboration with the Universities of Edinburgh and Leeds, as well as Forest Research, funded by the Natural Environment Research Council</li> </ul> <br clear="all" /> <a name="vug"></a> <h3>Visualising Urban Geographies</h3> <p><strong>A project that provides mapping tools for historians.</strong></p> <div class="floatright"><a href="urbhist/"><img src="img/vug.jpg" width="250" height="185" border="0" alt="Visualising Urban Geographies Graphic" /></a></div> <p> <a href="urbhist/">Visualising Urban Geographies</a> combines geo-referenced maps with historical information: </p> <ul> <li>new geo-referenced <a href="urbhist/resources_maps.html" >historical maps</a> and <a href="urbhist/resources_boundaries.html" >boundaries</a> of Edinburgh (1765-1950)</li> <li><a href="urbhist/guides.html">guides</a> for <a href="urbhist/guides_georeferencing.html" >georeferencing maps</a>, <a href="urbhist/guides_vectorlayerqgis.html" >features</a> and <a href="urbhist/guides_maptiler.html" >putting maps online</a></li> </ul> <br clear="all" /> <a name="woodland"></a> <h3>Woodland in Scotland, 1840s-1880s</h3> <p><strong><a href="woodland/">Explore woodland in Scotland between the 1840s and 1880s</a>.</strong></p> <div class="floatright"><a href="woodland/"><img src="img/woodland.jpg" width="250" height="185" border="0" alt="Woodland in Scotland, 1840s-1880s Graphic" /></a></div> <ul> <li> This project has extracted a woodland layer from Ordnance Survey six-inch 1st edition maps, using machine learning, post-processing techniques and manual verification. 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