Reply to: Maps

[NickFitz]

Detailed maps that offer a fascinating glimpse into how every area of England and Wales developed from Victorian times to the 1950s are now available free online.

The series of Ordnance Survey maps shows how towns and cities have spread into the countryside and how the road and rail network developed. Individual buildings and streets can be identified clearly and smaller features can be seen including post boxes, bollards on quaysides and mile posts. The maps can be viewed over time for each place of interest.

They are available on the website of the National Library of Scotland (NLS) as a result of an extensive programme that has digitised historic maps across the UK.

Historic maps now online for every town in England and Wales - National Library of Scotland

[original PM]

this is good also

normal world map







actual size world map




Interesting!

[OwlHoot]

Still waiting for a decent one of Titan, once they can see through the gloom to map it properly.

Talk of the Devil! From the BBC only yesterday:

2013-03-18 'Waves' detected on Titan moon’s lakes

[OwlHoot]

Suity's random post about magnetic declination has had me going through my map collection. I buy them as souveneirs of places i've been.

Swisstopo are my favourties. Beautiful maps.

Does anyone else have this fetish or is it just me?

No me too.

I also have a large atlas of the Moon, and another one of Mercury, although I'm not sure when I'll visit either of them.

Still waiting for a decent one of Titan, once they can see through the gloom to map it properly.

[suityou01]

Old Maps Online

It's, er, old maps online.

Getting nostalgic?

[mudskipper]

Old Maps Online

It's, er, old maps online.

[Halo Jones]

I love maps & have a fair sized collection, but as they are not of this reality I have issues with IRL geography

[suityou01]

You mean you can't find one so you want me to google it for you?

I'll be your dawg.

[doodab]

I had hoped you could interpolate

You mean you can't find one so you want me to google it for you?

[suityou01]

You never did come up with a graph of magnetic field strength did you.

I had hoped you could interpolate

[doodab]

I knew you didnt understand.

You never did come up with a graph of magnetic field strength did you.

[suityou01]

Suity's random post about magnetic declination has had me going through my map collection. I buy them as souveneirs of places i've been.

Swisstopo are my favourties. Beautiful maps.

Does anyone else have this fetish or is it just me?

I knew you didnt understand.

[Doggy Styles]

Suity's random post about magnetic declination has had me going through my map collection. I buy them as souveneirs of places i've been.

Swisstopo are my favourties. Beautiful maps.

Does anyone else have this fetish or is it just me?

Me too. Mostly OS in the UK.

[MarillionFan]

Suity's random post about magnetic declination has had me going through my map collection. I buy them as souveneirs of places i've been.

Swisstopo are my favourties. Beautiful maps.

Does anyone else have this fetish or is it just me?

Shaved or something on top?

[AtW]

Me too, from a child upwards and as soon as I passed my driving test (in the 60s) I was looking a European maps a wondering what the road looks like in real life, so at 18 I was driving and camping around Europe.

Same here, the only difference is that I thought I'd be driving a tank around Europe...