We have just put together our latest issue of 'Cairt: the newsletter of the Scottish Maps Forum':
http://www.nls.uk/media/1214535/cairt28.pdf
In this issue:
Recent website additions:
Blaeu Atlas Maior, 1662-65 - http://maps.nls.uk/atlas/blaeu-maior/index.html
Soil Survey of Scotland, 1950s-1980s - http://maps.nls.uk/series/soils/index.html
OS 25 inch County Series England and Wales (1841-1952) progress - http://maps.nls.uk/os/25inch-england-and-wales/index.html
Ordnance Map of Hong Kong by Thomas Collinson (1846) - http://maps.nls.uk/hongkong/102621568.html
New website resources:
New Historic Maps Subscription API layers - http://maps.nls.uk/projects/subscription-api/index.html
Digimap for Schools update - OS Seventh Series addition - http://digimapforschools.edina.ac.uk/
Lesmahagow Place Names Database - http://maps.nls.uk/projects/lesmahagow/
Scotland Land Use Viewer - compare 1930s land use to the present day - http://maps.nls.uk/projects/landuse/
Professor Charles Withers appointed as Geographer Royal for Scotland
Recent research
'Alexander Ogg and his Plan of New and Old Aberdeen (1847-55)' by Douglas Lockhart
(view map at: http://maps.nls.uk/view/115109637 )
'Surveying the Symbol Stones' by Helen Mulholland: https://www.academia.edu/12867723/Surveying_the_Symbol_Stones
'Maps, patterns and pictures on stone' by Fiona Mulgrew: http://geo.nls.uk/maps/mulgrew/index.html
Edinburgh Geological Society donation
Recent publications
Competition - a chance to win a copy of John Moore's 'Glasgow: Mapping the City'.
Self-service photography to begin in the Maps Reading Room
Exhibitions update
Read this issue online: http://www.nls.uk/media/1214535/cairt28.pdf
This and previous issues of Cairt can be read at: http://www.nls.uk/collections/maps/subject-info/cairt
Chris Fleet
Map Curator | Rare Books Maps and Music Department
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