Post on 17-May-2015
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Map Library Collections
One of the ten largest map libraries in the World:
• 2 million sheet maps
• 15,000 atlases
• 100,000 maps on microfilm
• Over 1 terabyte of digital mapping
Also gazetteers, cartographic reference books and periodicals, and planning reports…
Pont, 1583-1614
Pont /Blaeu – 1654
Tioram Castle, 1748
J. Finlayson, A plan of the Battle of Culloden…, 1746
Wood – 1821
Admiralty Chart: Survey of the Frith of Forth, by George Thomas... in 1815
Modern detailed digital mapping – OS MasterMapThe most detailed Ordnance Survey mapping for anywhere in the United Kingdom (including towns!) can be viewed in the Map Library through a simple Viewer
Maps Website – www.nls.uk/maps• Over 8,000 high-resolution images of maps of Scotland (1560 to 1928).
During 2008:
• 14.8 million hits /maps webpages
• 12.9 million map image views
• 1,172 images and 1,611 printouts sent out
• 171 permission to publish requests
• Increasing geo-referenced content from 2004
• 13,000 more maps due online by summer 2009
Collaboration with external institutions
•Images, printouts and photocopies
•Digitisation of public library materials
•website linkages
•facsimile publications
•Scotlandsimages.com
•Geo-referencing – geographic retrieval
•Web 2.0 Google mashups and shared applications
DIGMAP Project - Discovering our Past World with Digitised Maps eContentplus Project: 2005-8 (portal.digmap.eu/)
Collaboration with external institutions
•Images, printouts and photocopies
•Digitisation of public library materials
•website linkages
•facsimile publications
•Scotlandsimages.com
•Geo-referencing – geographic retrieval
•Web 2.0 Google mashups and shared applications
Roy Military Survey, 1747-55
Ordnance Survey Town Plans – 1847-1895 – geo-referenced overlays
Ordnance Survey, surveyed 1852
Ordnance Survey, surveyed 1852
http://geo.nls.uk/maps/loch_lomond_south/openlayers.html
Gazetteer for Scotland – mashup using NLS’ Web Map Service layers
(www.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz/gaztitle.html)
http://teaching.shc.ed.ac.uk/esh/msc_landscape/wtutorial/edinburghsouth.html