At 16:34 30/01/2002 +0000, you wrote:
>Not wishing to spoil anyone's day, but the OS maps are already online at the
>OS website, at http://www.ordsvy.gov.uk
>Malcolm J Watkins
>Strategic Cultural Manager,
>Gloucester City Council
.... Unless you have access to a different OS web site to the one I know
about, no they are not. The OS, in partnership with Landmark Information,
market images scans of old 1:10 560 sheets (6 inch to the mile). See:
http://www.old-maps.co.uk
A quite independent second set of scans from the same source is available
from Sitescope, who used the originals in the Royal Geographical Society
library:
http://www.sitescope.co.uk
However, my posting concerned one inch to the mile maps. These are not
available from the OS, and as far as I know not available from anyone
else. If you want to give an idea about what a "place" was like, as
distinct from a single building, the one inch maps are arguably better --
given the amount of space we have on a computer screen, six inch map
excerpts tend to show just a couple of fields.
Best wishes,
Humphrey Southall
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