Much of the historic mapping available via EDINA to subscribing
academic institutions (of which mine is one) is pretty useful:
http://edina.ac.uk/maps/, but I agree that the availability of
mapping data to researchers not directly associated with Universities
&c is not good.
However, even the material available via EDINA isn't always that good.
The 1:2500 scale raster data is generally OK (though the scanned sheets
aren't always stitched together that well), but the quality of the
smaller
scale material isn't very good at all having been scanned (or resampled)
at much too low a resolution in my opinion.
Nick
> Any one else feel that a valuable reserach resource is being
> monopolised
> out of existance?
>
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