OldMapsOnline has been created by a collaboration between The Great Britain Historical GIS Project based at The University of Portsmouth, UK and Klokan Technologies GmbH, Switzerland. web address = http://www.oldmapsonline.org Click on Organisation below to go to the websitePridal, P...
https://maps.nls.uk Old Maps Onlinewww.oldmapsonline.orgis a gateway to historic maps from around the world Some counties have their own archive –https://www.cumbriacountyhistory.org.uk/resourcesis just an example and is really helpful for tracking down information, quite a lot of which i...
You can give, or own, these amazing views of hedgerows, villages and tracks of anyone’s childhood/ancestors, revealing wells, mines, railways, old out-buildings, even ponds or gardens. These framed Victorian maps are some of the best antique reproduction maps produced in the UK, so much so...
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Old Maps Online is an online search tool for historical maps. It uniquely draws together map collections from libraries around the world into a single, easy to use search interface. Using cutting edge technology the user searches for old maps by location, narrowed by date, rather than through ...
7, No. 2, 2012 [73-81] www.e-perimetron.org | ISSN 1790-3769 [73] Humphrey Southall * , Petr Přidal ** Old Maps Online: Enabling global access to historical mapping Keywords: Federated map search; geographical searching; MapRank; DCMI BOX; MARC 034; metadata; Bounding Box. Summary...
These are amazing maps. And I agree with you that those by Harold Fisk do look like works of art! And, I find it rather funny that I’ve learned facts about a river that is in my country from someone who lives in another country! (I was surprised that at its narrowest point that...
https://www.smc.org.uk/publications/scrambling A huge plate of immaculate gneiss perched above one of the roughest and wildest corries in the country. Serious and committing but never technically hard, with views over hundreds of square miles of empty Sutherland. When combined with the (almost...
Geni.com has an online collaborative family tree. Their motto "Everyone's related" If you are a descendant of an old Hong Kong Anglo-Asian family (ususally known as Eurasian today) than bop on over there and try your luck. It is a bit of a Wild West si
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