My goodness! Is there any limit to these people's enterprise?!
Yours gratefully,
Richard Oliver
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Sent: 19 December 2012 09:59
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Subject: Bartholomew half-inch Great Britain mapping, 1897-1909
In connection with the NLS Bartholomew exhibition ( http://www.nls.uk/exhibitions/bartholomew ) we have just added a set of Bartholomew half-inch to the mile mapping for Great Britain (1897-1909) to our website. This includes 29 sheets covering Scotland ( http://maps.nls.uk/series/bart_half_scotland.html ) and 37 sheets covering England and Wales ( http://maps.nls.uk/series/bart_half_england.html ).
The maps can also be searched geographically in our 'Find by Place' application ( http://maps.nls.uk/openlayers.cfm?id=34 ) and as a georeferenced overlay in our 'Explore georeferenced maps' application ( http://maps.nls.uk/openlayers.cfm?m=1&id=156 )
You can also explore Bartholomew half-inch maps through two related applications on our Bartholomew Archive website ( http://digital.nls.uk/bartholomew/ ):
1. the Great Britain time traveller ( http://geo.nls.uk/maps/bartholomew/great_britain/index.html ) allows Bartholomew half-inch maps from a century ago to be compared to modern maps, including a modern Collins Geo Touring map. We are very grateful to Collins Bartholomew ( http://www.collinsbartholomew.com/ ) for allowing us permission to use this modern layer.
2. the Cairngorms layer colour explorer ( http://geo.nls.uk/maps/bartholomew/layers/index.html ) allows six Bartholomew half-inch maps (1890-1905), with their different palettes for contour layer colouring to be compared to each other and to modern Google terrain and other layers.
Many thanks,
Chris
Chris Fleet
Senior Map Curator
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