Georeferenced maps and applications

Maps of Scotland home

Access over 5,000 georeferenced historical maps through search applications, overlays, a georeferencer, an Historical Mapping API, and the Visualising Urban Geographies website.

	Search using zoomable maps and gazetteers for Ordnance Survey maps.
	Search applications: Ordnance Survey Maps - Six-inch 1st edition, Scotland, 1843-1882 Ordnance Survey Maps - 25 inch 1st edition, Scotland, 1855-1882 Roy Military Survey Map of Scotland, 1747-55 Ordnance Survey large scale Scottish town plans, 1847-1895 Ordnance Survey air photo mosaics, 1944-1950
	View geo-referenced historical maps overlaid upon modern Google and Bing map, satellite and terrain layers.
	Overlaying historical maps on present-day mapping: Scotland - series maps Ordnance Survey large-scale town plans, 1847-1895 Bathymetrical Survey charts, 1897-1909 Maps of Edinburgh, 1756-1950 England and Wales, 1945-47
	Georeference hundreds of our Early Maps of Scotland.
	Georeferencer is an easy and enjoyable way of georeferencing historical maps: maps of Scotland, 1560-1928 county maps, 1580-1928 town plans, 1580-1919 coastal charts, 1580-1850 Sutherland estate maps, 1770s
	A free to use seamless historic map of Great Britain from the 1920s-40s.
	This seamless historic mapping API can be: embedded in your own website used for research purposes used as a backdrop in your own applications used to create derivative work (such as OpenStreetMap) from it.
	Visualising Urban Geographies is a project that provides mapping tools for historians.
	Visualising Urban Geographies combines geo-referenced maps with historical information open-source tools to allow historical source material to be interrogated, layered, visualised, and analysed new geo-referenced historical maps and boundaries of Edinburgh (1765-1950) create your own thematic maps and charts using social and economic data and boundaries guides for georeferencing maps, features and putting maps online
	A collaborative partnership between Wilbourn Associates and NLS
	This collaborative partnership with Wilbourn Associates is funding the scanning and georeferencing of historical maps. So far the following series have been made available: Ordnance Survey, Scotland, One-Inch to the Mile, 1885-1900 and 1945-1948 Ordnance Survey, Great Britain, Ten Mile to One-Inch Planning Map series, 1944-1960 Ordnance Survey, Great Britain, One-Inch to the mile, Seventh Series, 1952-1961