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posted: 4 Mar 2012 13:15 from: Martin Wynne
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A news release from Dr Humphrey Southall, Dept of Geography, University of Portsmouth. The Old Maps Online federated search portal is now live and available for everyone to use: http://www.oldmapsonline.org At launch, the portal covers five collections, and a bit over 60,000 maps: A Vision of Britain through Time British Library David Rumsey Collection Moravian Library National Library of Scotland We are launching after only four months of a fifteen month project so we have time to add both more features to the software and more collections. We already have several additional map libraries which will definitely be added, but we are looking for more. To be included, maps must have been scanned, obviously, and they must be directly accessible online without payment or passwords. There is no need for the maps to be in any particular viewer, but we need to hold the real-world coordinates of the corners; if you do not have these we can maybe help. Although we have time to improve the site's software, it is already quite polished and we want to keep it simple: this is aimed at the generality of users, rather than either cartographic historians or GIS experts. Our aim is simply to help users find maps, and pass them to the relevant library's site to view them. Our home page IS the search form, always displaying a map and usually automatically centring it on wherever you are in the world. You can then specify the area you want maps to cover, by zooming in and out, and panning around; and also the time period you want the maps to be from. As you change these settings, the system automatically updates its list of best matches, and displays them as a scrolling list of thumbnail images to the right of the main display. Click on a thumbnail and a pop-up shows further information about the map. Click on the thumbnail in the pop-up and a separate tab should open in your browser, showing you the page for the map at the relevant library -- so for example, whether you can download the image depends on the library, not on us. That is about all the portal does, but it hopefully does it very well. Enjoy! Dr Humphrey Southall This looks to be a very promising new resource.  Martin. |
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posted: 4 Mar 2012 14:45 from: Raymond
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What an enormous and useful reference library this looks like, and free too! I found maps of Birmingham I did not know existed for 1868. Regards Raymond |
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posted: 4 Mar 2012 16:46 from: Nigel Brown click the date to link to this post click member name to view archived images |
Great! Typed in Kyle of Lochalsh and got a large selection, including the 1902 1:2500 which I already have. Prices are very reasonable (from NLS in this case). Nigel |
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posted: 4 Mar 2012 17:14 from: wcampbell23
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The search engine does not work very well - it does not recognize all place names and does not report a failure. The user interface does not yet work properly - it gets stuck very easily. Much easier to find Kyle directly in the much easier to use NLS web site! Bill Campbell. |
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posted: 4 Mar 2012 18:52 from: Nigel Brown click the date to link to this post click member name to view archived images |
Bill Finding Kyle in this user interface was as easy as it gets, and it gives sources other than NLS Nigel |
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