National Library of Scotland Map Transcription Projects

Fancy another transcription project?! From the National Library of Scotland (www.nls.uk):

Over the next few months we are looking for volunteers to help with a set of new collaborative projects to transcribe features and text from maps. We are hoping to gather all of the placenames from the Roy Military Survey maps of Scotland (1747-55), trace footpaths from Ordnance Survey six-inch to the mile maps of Scotland (ca.1900s), and gather text from Ordnance Survey 25 inch to the mile mapping of Edinburgh. The results will be released as open datasets for onward use, allowing new place-name search possibilities, helping research into the history of footpaths to safeguard rights of way today, and assisting with automatic text recognition from historic maps.

For further details, and to register an interest, please visit our New Map Transcription Projects page.

Chris

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