We've just put together our latest issue of Cairt, with Scottish map
news over the last six months.
Cairt can be viewed online at:
http://www.nls.uk/media/1030320/cairt21.pdf
(PDF - 1.6 Mb)
The main items in the latest issue are:
* New online map series:
Ordnance Survey County Series for Scotland, 1840s - 1950s
Ordnance Survey Great Britain One-Inch Seventh series, 1952-1961
Ordnance Survey Great Britain 1:25,000 Provisional edition,
1937-61
Ordnance Survey Great Britain Ten-Mile Planning maps, 1944-1960
* Updated "Search by place" Sheet Viewer - allowing all 48,000 NLS
online maps to be searched geographically
* New smartphone apps - "Great Escapes: Moray" and "Scotland's
Clearances Trail App"
* Bartholomew Archive Project update and forthcoming exhibition
New georeferenced mosaic of the Bartholomew Survey Atlas mapping
(1912)
* The Times "Britain's Scenic Railways" - forthcoming book with
Bartholomew half-inch mapping and competition to win copies
* The next "Maps and Mappery in Scottish History" course
* Franz Ritter's sundial map (1607 and later editions)
* Pont maps research update - two new online articles on the provenance
and numbering of the Pont maps
* "John Slezer: A Survey of Scotland" exhibition
* Recent publications and acquisitions - including a new state of Thomas
Taylor's "New map of Scotland..." (1746)
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This and previous issues of Cairt can be read at:
http://www.nls.uk/collections/maps/subject-info/cairt
Chris Fleet
Senior Map Curator
National Library of Scotland
159 Causewayside
EDINBURGH
EH9 1PH
United Kingdom.
Tel. 0131 623 3973
Fax. 0131 623 3971
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
View maps website: http://maps.nls.uk
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