Dear friends,
Below is a query from a member of staff here in my department.
Essentially he wants digital data for old high and low water marks
and thus needs to BORROW maps to digitise from them (or purchase the
data should it be digitised). If anyone has any ideas of other
sources of information I'm sure that he'd be interested.
Many thanks
Tinho
Dear Map Curator,
I am currently putting together a proposal for submission to MAFF
concerning the response of estuaries to climate and environmental
change. I would like to include a list of the availability of
cartographic data at 1:25000 and 1:10000 back to about AD 1800. As
University map libraries tend to be rather region-specific to some
degree, I would be very grateful to receive information concerning
map collections on the major estuaries, e.g. Thames, Medway,
Southampton Water, Poole Harbour, Tamar, Severn/Bristol Channel,
Taff, Tawe, Dee, Mersey, Ribble, Morecambe Bay, Solway Firth, Clyde,
Forth, Tees, Humber, The Wash (and others that I've probably
overlooked). Ideally, I'd like to have snapshots of these sites
(mainly MHW and MLW) at about 1950, 1900 and 1800-1850.
In providing your information, some idea of the cost involved in
borrowing these maps would be very useful. Indeed, if you already
have a digitized from of the high- and low-water marks, and the
distributions of sand, mud and marsh... that would be excellent.
Again, some costing for obtaining this information (and its format)
would be greatly appreciated.
I look forward to hearing from you
Dr. Andrew J. Plater
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Department of Geography, Roxby Building,
University of Liverpool, LIVERPOOL L69 3BX
Telephone: 0151 794 2843 Fax: 0151 794 2866
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