Dear Lis-maps people,
Whilst it is good and useful for all (i.e. those with access to the
internet) to have the BSFLS on the web, this is an appropriate opportunity
to remind you that 64 (sixty-four) of the maps are still available - as real
paper original maps/charts - from this Society's Map Room.
Like the other 1,500 or so original RGS maps from the 1830s to the 1980s,
that have been purchasable since 1993 when the Map Room took over the
residue of stocks, these can be sought on the web-page 'Maps for sale'. On
the newly-designed/revised website (up and running today, I believe) click
on 'Collections': under 'Map Room' then 'Search the collection' then
'Search the Collections catalogue' and finally 'Maps for sale'.
From a couple of views of the NLS's web versions this morning I can confirm
that our colleagues up north are using copies of the maps bought from us (I
noticed my own handwritten sales map number at bottom right)!
Francis Herbert (Curator of Maps)
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http://www.rgs.org
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From: Fleet, Christopher [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 28 May 2004 14:27
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Subject: New website - Scottish Bathymetrical Charts
[With apologies for cross-posting]
The National Library of Scotland has launched a new website about the
Bathymetrical Survey of the Freshwater Lochs of Scotland (1897-1909).
These 232 high-resolution zoomable, colour images form a comprehensive
snapshot of 562 inland Scottish lochs and their depths, surveyed about a
century ago under the direction of the oceanographer, Sir John Murray, and
financed primarily by his friend Laurence Pullar. The attractive layer
tinted maps show loch depths and landward relief, and were published by J.G.
Bartholomew & Son, based on contemporary Ordnance Survey six-inch to the
mile sheets. The website provides further information about the Survey, its
participants and their methods, along with search facilities for all the
lochs. These search facilities include our pilot web-mapping search
application, using zoomable Ordnance Survey maps and gazetteers (obtained
under the UK Pan Government Agreement) to locate lochs. We hope to extend
this search mechanism to several other NLS collections in future.
View the Bathymetrical Survey maps at:
http://www.nls.uk/digitallibrary/map/early/bathymetric/index.html
The website forms part of a collection of over 4,000 map images of Scotland
available at: http://www.nls.uk/maps
Christopher Fleet
Map Library
National Library of Scotland
33 Salisbury Place
EDINBURGH, EH9 1SL.
Scotland.
Tel. 0131 466 3813
Fax. 0131 466 3812
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