Coastal charts of Scotland, 1592-1947
We have added 100 more charts of Scottish coasts and waters, doubling the number of sea charts we have online. These charts focus on nautical information for mariners, but they also play an important part in establishing the coastline and shape of Scotland, as well as providing often unique information on coastal settlements and ports. The initial predominance of Dutch and French charts in the 16th and early 17th centuries, gave way to charts by British and later Scottish surveyors, including John Adair, Thomas Winter, John Ainslie and Murdoch Mackenzie. These charts were drafted to support expanding merchant shipping and fisheries, for ferries and steamer travel, as well as intermittent naval concerns. Many of these charts are folded, fragile or from special collections, that have only recently been possible to scan.
In addition, the NLS has added a new function to its geo-referenced maps viewer:
New parish/county information in the Explore Georeferenced Maps viewer
We have added details of the parish and county under the map cursor, when looking at maps of England, Scotland or Wales at zoom level 13 or higher in our Explore Georeferenced Maps viewer. The parish/county information appears to the lower right of the screen (as illustrated). This is based on the parish and county boundaries in the 1950s. For parishes in Scotland, there is also a link to view the specific parish in the centre of the screen, highlighted in our Boundaries Viewer. We have added this to help identify the particular pre-1970s parish when viewing georeferenced maps.
For relevant links please visit https://maps.nls.uk/additions.html#91.
Finally, some welcome news from Craig Statham of the NLS at yesterday's Scottish Indexes conference, who noted that in addition to thre 250,000 maps already available at https://maps.nls.uk/, a further quarter of a million maps are due to go online over the next few years, including more international material.
Chris
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