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Maps of Scotland Sheet Viewer - Help |
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Maps of Scotland Sheet Viewer - Help |
This application allows 44,000 maps of Scotland to be searched and viewed. The application complements our Mosaic Viewer application that allows seamless mosaics to be viewed.
Choose the map series that you would like to search from the left-hand list, and then click on the map to view the sheet that covers your area of interest. The sheet that you have selected is highlighted in blue, and a brief record and image of it appears in the right-hand panel. Select this to view a zoomable image or further information about the map sheet.
The following map series are included in this application:
| OS 1 inch - 1856-1891 | 131 sheets | ||
| OS 1 inch - 1895-1900 | 131 sheets | ||
| OS 1 inch - 1903-1912 | 131 sheets | ||
| OS 1 inch Popular - 1921-1930 | 92 sheets | ||
| OS 1 inch Popular with National Grid - 1945-1947 | 92 sheets | ||
| OS 1 inch Seventh Series - 1952-1961 | 190 sheets | (This series covers Great Britain) | |
| OS, 1:25,000 maps - 1937-1961 | (This series covers Great Britain) | ||
| OS 6 inch - 1843-1882 | 2,132 sheets | ||
| OS 6 inch - 1892-1960 | 7,486 sheets | ||
| OS 25 inch - 1855-1882 | 13,045 sheets | ||
| OS 25 inch - 1892-1949 | 17,466 sheets | ||
| OS Town Plans - 1847-1895 | 62 towns, 1,872 sheets | ||
| Bathymetrical Survey - 1897-1909 | 223 maps of 562 lochs | ||
| OS Air Photo Mosaics - 1944-1950 | 221 air photo mosaics |
The Gazetteer at the top of the map allows you to locate your area on the map using modern place names from Google, as well as by British National Grid Reference - 2,4,6,or 10 figures. Further left, drop-down boxes allow counties and parishes (based on their names and boundaries in the 1940s) to be searched. In all cases, the map will then position to the place, National Grid Reference, county or parish that has been selected.
By default, the background map shows 1920s mapping from the NLS Historic Maps API. Select the drop-down list to choose Ordnance Survey Opendata, or Google maps, satellite, hybrid and terrain views as background maps. Double-click on the map or click the zoom slider (upper left) to zoom in on the map.
In the lower-right of the map, the location of your mouse position is shown as a British National Grid Reference, as British National Grid Eastings and Northings, and as longitude and latitude.
This application uses Geoserver and Openlayers, and was customised by Klokan Technologies.
Please email maps@nls.uk for further assistance, or to provide general comments/feedback.