We have recently scanned, georeferenced and made available a couple of 1940s / 1950s Ordnance Survey medium-scale series of Great Britain that may be of interest: * Ordnance Survey 1:63,360 Seventh Series, 1952-1961 - 190 sheets Home page: http://maps.nls.uk/os/one-inch-seventh-series/index.html The series may also be searched through a graphic index at: http://geo.nls.uk/search/ and as a georeferenced mosaic at: http://geo.nls.uk/search/mosaic/ WMS address: http://geo.nls.uk/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=e:/mapdata2/os/seventh/mapserv er.map& TMS address: http://geo.nls.uk/mapdata2/os/seventh/{zoom}/{x}/{-y}.png * Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 Provisional / First series, 1937-1961 - 2027 sheets Home page: http://maps.nls.uk/os/25k-gb-1937-61/index.html The series may be searched through a graphic index at: http://geo.nls.uk/search/ and as a georeferenced mosaic at: http://geo.nls.uk/search/mosaic/ WMS address: http://geo.nls.uk/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=e:/mapdata2/os/25000/mapserver .map& TMS address: http://geo.nls.uk/mapdata2/os/25000/{zoom}/{x}/{-y}.png Those using these layers as a WMS or TMS are asked to credit NLS in any public applications displaying these layers. And just to say thanks to Wilbourn Associates for funding the work, to Klokan Technologies' MapTiler for creating the georeferenced tilesets, Roger Hellyer and Richard Oliver's ever useful cartobibliographies and accompanying research, and to the Royal Geographical Society for a scan of SU87... 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 *********************************************************************** Visit the National Library of Scotland online at www.nls.uk *********************************************************************** Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. This communication is intended for the addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the Information Systems Helpdesk on +44 131 623 3789 or [log in to unmask] and delete this e-mail. The statements and opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the National Library of Scotland. The National Library of Scotland is a registered Scottish charity. Scottish Charity No. SC011086. This message is subject to the Data Protection Act 1998 and Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 and has been scanned by iCritical. *********************************************************************** Follow us on Twitter for twice-weekly updates. Become our fan on Facebook and keep up-to-date that way too.