British town maps, 1470-1895: a catalogue and cartographical analysis. The aim was to produce for England, Wales and Scotland a catalogue of the cartographic characteristics and topographic content of every manuscript and printed town map produced from 1470 (the first British town map) to 1895 (by which time publication of Ordnance Survey large-scale town maps was completed). The catalogue will constitute a definitive, permanent research tool for a wide range of historical research users. This last will contribute to the long-term conservation of these, often fragile, artefacts. The findings for England Wales and Scotland will enhance knowledge of, and access to, the town maps of the whole of Britain. Dissemination is envisaged by composite electronic and printed media on the model of our Enclosure Maps of England and Wales. The printed book will also contain a summary gazetteer of cartobibliographic information for each map discovered by the project.
Funding sources: Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Content types created: Software tools used: Digital Mappae Mundi - MARC 2012 Conference. "The DM Environment: from Annotation to Dissemination" Martin Foys, Co-director, English (Drew University) & Shannon Bradshaw Co-director, Computer Science (Drew University) DM (formerly Digital Mappaemundi) is an on-line environment that allows users to easily assemble collections of images and texts for study, produce their own rich analysis data, and publish online resources for individual, group or public use. Repositories in all sectors of the humanities enable online access to digitized images, texts, and associated meta-data. But despite increasingly open access to repositories and a number of recent developments in annotation technology and web publication software, it remains extremely expensive and time-consuming to produce widely reusable websites, databases, and other online resources for use in humanities research and teaching.
Asa Mittman Co-director, English (CSU, Chico) "The Wandering of the Jews: A Use Case for Digital Mappaemundi" A Vision of Britain through Time | Your national on-line library for local history | Maps, Statistics, Travel Writing and more. Old maps of Britain and Europe from A Vision of Britain Through Time. This "historical maps" page lets you search and view our large collection of historical maps. The viewer you can see lets you explore our seamless maps — scroll down to access individual map sheets. What is in our collection We hold three types of map, which you choose between by selecting one of the thematic tabs: Topographic maps: These are general purpose maps showing the physical landscape: hills and valleys, rivers and coast, plus man-made features like settlements, roads and railways. We hold these maps for different periods and at different scales.
How we store our map collection We hold maps in two quite different forms, each with its own viewer: As individual SHEETS: All the maps in our collection are held as digital images of the complete sheet, including all the information around the edges. Finding and viewing seamless maps Most of our seamless maps are grouped into one of three layers, each one including coverages at two or three different scales. Finding and viewing map sheets. Scottish Bibles. We are in the process of restructuring parts of our site. The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.
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