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These web-mapping applications allow access to geo-referenced historic maps and images.
There are two main search applications: | 1. Sheet Viewer | 2. Mosaic Viewer | |
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Roy Military Survey Map of Scotland, 1747-55
This application allows the Roy Military Survey Map of Scotland to be searched and viewed as a seamless, geo-referenced mosaic. Known to its contemporaries as the 'Great Map', the Roy Map is a uniquely important historical cartographic document. |
Sheet Viewer | Highlands - Mosaic Viewer Lowlands - Mosaic Viewer |
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Ordnance Survey Maps - One inch Scotland, 1856-1930
This application allows the Ordnance Survey One inch to the mile maps to be searched and viewed as individual map images. This set of four main editions of mapping (1856-1930), provides comprehensive coverage of Scotland. |
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Ordnance Survey Maps - Six-inch 1st edition, Scotland, 1843-1882
These maps form the earliest comprehensive topographic mapping of Scotland by Ordnance Survey, illustrating a very wide range of natural and man-made features for the first time. The six-inch to the mile scale (1:10,560) is the most detailed that covered the whole of Scotland, and the most detailed scale to show contours. | Sheet Viewer | Mosaic Viewer |
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Ordnance Survey Maps - Six-inch 2nd and later editions, Scotland, 1892-1960
These maps form the earliest comprehensive topographic mapping of Scotland by Ordnance Survey from the 1890s to the 1940s. It was revised for the whole country from 1892-1907, and then updated regularly for urban or rapidly changing areas from 1914 to the 1940s. |
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Ordnance Survey Maps - 25 inch 1st edition, Scotland, 1855-1882
This series (1855-1882), is the earliest detailed mapping for all the inhabited regions of Scotland. All towns, villages and cultivated rural areas were mapped, comprising over a third of the total land area of Scotland. |
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Ordnance Survey Maps - 25 inch 2nd and later editions, Scotland, 1892-1949
This series forms the most detailed topographic mapping for all the inhabited regions of Scotland from the 1890s to the 1940s. The series is made up of 17,466 map sheets, and all were revised from 1892-1907. Sheets covering more populated and rapidly changing areas were selectively revised from 1914 to the 1940s. |
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Ordnance Survey large scale Scottish town plans, 1847-1895
These very detailed maps at 1:500 and 1:1056 scales, cover 62 towns in Scotland, and form the earliest, as well as the most detailed urban mapping ever published by Ordnance Survey. |
Sheet Viewer | Mosaic Viewer |
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Ordnance Survey Air Photo Mosaics of Scotland, 1944-1950
These air photo mosaics provide key information on the landscape of post-War Scotland, including good detail of urban topography and land-use. |
Sheet Viewer | Mosaic Viewer |
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Bathymetrical Survey of the Fresh-Water Lochs of Scotland, 1897-1909
The first comprehensive examination of the depths and nature of 562 inland Scottish lochs, including some 60,000 soundings on 223 coloured maps. |
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Ordnance Survey, Great Britain, One-Inch to Ten Mile Planning Maps series, 1944-1960
This small-scale map series provides an excellent set of thematic maps, illustrating a wide range of natural and man-made phenomena in the 1940s and 1950s. The thematic maps include Administrative Areas, Coal and Iron, Farming, Geology, Land Classification and Land Utilisation, Limestone, Population Density and Population Change, Railways, Rainfall, and Roads. | Mosaic Viewer | |
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Great Escapes of Moray - maps of Elgin and environs from 1747 to 1938
This set of seven maps provide coverage of the Elgin, Lossiemouth and Burghead area from the mid-18th to the mid-20th centuries. They include Ordnance Survey, land utilisation and geological mapping. The maps support the Great Escapes of Moray smartphone application. | Mosaic Viewer | |
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Ordnance Survey National Grid paper maps for Scotland, 1944-1991
This application retrieves geo-referenced records for all Ordnance Survey National Grid paper maps for Scotland at 1:2,500 and 1:1,250 scales. The OS maps themselves are not viewable, but this application makes map details available remotely. These include 45,000 records for sheet maps, surveyed between 1944 and 1991, | Sheet Viewer |
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