At 10:01 05/02/2004 +0000, you wrote:
>Morning all,
>
>I've just received by post the latest issue of Historical GIS News from the
>Great Britain Historical GIS Project.
>
>This includes a description of the new website from the project, funded by
>the New Opportunities Fund, at www.visionofbritain.org.uk. This site is
>Phase 1 of a substantial project shows what the connection of historical /
>contemporary census data and GIS can do. Well worth a visit.
>
>Ed
>English Heritage Data Standards Unit.
Dear Ed,
Thanks for that.
What needs to be added, maybe, is that the above site currently contains
only a small subset of our planned content, and in particular comes nowhere
near being a systematic authority for historical administrative units in
Britain -- which is one of our main goals. The only administrative units
it knows about are the 408 modern districts and unitary authorities.
Our final site, whose most accessible level looks very like the above site,
but which will provide similar pages -- including maps of where they were
-- for every historic parish is still under development. It does exist, but
there are performance and reliability issues.
However, a preview text-only site -- i.e. no maps or graphs, but LOTS of
administrative units and statistical data presented as tables -- is on-line at:
http://www.gbhgis.org/demo_gaz.htm
It holds, for example, complete lists of parishes in Wales, Scotland and
most of England, taken from sources such as Youngs' Local Administrative
Units. That site is only semi-public, so please have a look at it and show
it to colleagues, but please do not set up links to it from other web
sites. A separate site holds our scanned geo-referenced images of historic
maps:
http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/phase2/demo_init.html
That site is a development site, so it may occasionally disappear, and
should certainly not be linked to.
Best wishes,
Humphrey Southall
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Humphrey Southall
Reader in Geography/Director,
Great Britain Historical GIS Project
Department of Geography, University of Portsmouth
Buckingham Building, Lion Terrace, Portsmouth PO1 3HE
GIS Project Office: (023) 9284 2500
Home office: (020) 8853 0396
Mobile: (07736) 727928
Web site: http://www.gbhgis.org
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