There have been a few additions and changes to the National Library of Scotland maps collection site (https://maps.nls.uk) in March, as follows:
New tools for Drawing / Tracing Features
We have added new tools to allow easy drawing / tracing of features on our maps. These have been added to our Explore Georeferenced Maps - Full Screen / Draw viewer (for georeferenced maps), as well as our standard map images viewer (for non-georeferenced maps). You can choose a feature type for drawing, choose a colour, and just click/tap on the map to draw. You can easily modify features once drawn, as well as delete them. The resulting drawn features can be saved locally as an image or JSON file of coordinates (which can be easily edited with a text editor). In the georeferenced maps viewer, you can save a GeoJSON file of drawn features, for easy onward editing in geographic viewers or software. In the map images viewer, you can also print a PDF of the drawn features, and save a JSON file with X,Y image coordinates.
Updated home page, viewers and footer
We have updated our home page, viewers and footers in response to user feedback. Our home page is now shorter and simpler, with the main map search options presented more clearly. Our previous Find by Place viewers have been renamed Map Finder, to make their purpose clearer, and the Map Finder - with Marker Pin has been updated with better filtering options. We have also tried to improve help and guidance, with a new Guide to this website page, and clearer orange Help buttons to the lower left in all our viewers. We have also changed the footer to mirror the main Library website, grouping the most useful information pages into clearer lists.
All central page content, URLs and zoomable maps are unchanged.
OS Half-inch to the Mile, Scotland, Outline Edition, water in blue, 1942
This series at half-inch to the mile scale (1:126,720) was published during the Second World War as an Outline (uncoloured) series, with topography in black, and inland water features printed in blue. The map content largely represents the late 19th century landscape, with only minor later updates to topography and roads. Although printed in 1942, the source content relates to the initial half-inch series drawn in the 1900s, with topographic content derived from the main nationwide revision of maps at the larger-scales from the 1890s.
OS Quarter-inch to the Mile, maps of Scotland, 1901-1960
We have put online all of our Ordnance Survey Quarter-Inch to the mile maps of Scotland, numbering 182 maps across 16 series. The quarter-inch to the mile series provides an overview of significant landscape features, including larger settlements, railways, and roads. It was also particularly valuable for aviation, with various Civil Air and Royal Air Force editions, as well as a set captured and reissued for the German Luftwaffe, showing new aerodromes, landing strips and conspicuous features from the air. The earlier series covered all of Scotland in 17 sheets, whilst later series, with larger sheet extents, covered Scotland in 9-10 sheets. There were four main numbered editions, with various military and civilian forms, and with different ways of showing relief using hachures as well as hypsometric tints or layer colours.
OS One-Inch Seventh Series, Great Britain, 1952-1970
We have put online all of our Ordnance Survey One-Inch Seventh Series maps (896 sheets), covering all of Great Britain, 1952-1970. Our previous coverage of this series just included one edition for each sheet map, but we have now put online all our out-of-copyright editions. This also includes a set of Outline (uncoloured) sheets, as well as the Seventh Series Indexes, showing sheet lines of the 1:2500 County Series related to the National Grid. The Seventh Series provides an excellent overview of the landscape of Great Britain in the 1950s and 1960s, and it was the only standard one-inch to the mile (1:63,360) series to cover the whole of Great Britain.
For further details, and clickable links to the relevant collections, visit https://maps.nls.uk/additions.html
Chris
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