Higher Education Resources

There are a number of datasets available to Higher Education establishments through JISC agreements.

• Digimap - delivers Ordnance Survey online maps and data for mapping
• UKBORDERS - provides boundary data for the UK, both current and historical, for thematic and statistical mapping
• GoGeo - a geo-spatial resource discovery tool
• Landmap - provides orthorectified satellite image mosaics of Landsat, SPOT and ERS radar data and a high resolution Digital Elevation Model for the British Isles
• There is a lot of useful information on the website for the JISC Digital Media, a service that gives advice on digitisation issues to the higher education community

Dating a map

• To date a Geographia Limited map
  The date is usually disguised by the `CUMBERLAND' code whereby the letters CUMBERLAND corresponds to the numerals 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0, so that, B.RL. becomes 4.67 that is, April 1967. Not all Geographia maps include a date code
• A comprehensive guide to dating maps printed by John Bartholomew and Sons of Edinburgh has been provided by Ken Winch
• A Comprehensive Guide to Dating Bartholomews Maps [PDF] by Ken Winch
• Phil Hoehn has compiled a page of date codes for maps on the WAML site
• The Replogle Globes has a web page of major, selected political changes to assist in estimating the age of a world map or globe

Security issues

• From the History of Cartography gateway website, articles about and links to information about the thefts of early maps, including a report on the seminar “Responding to Theft” held in 2002 at the National Library of Wales

Co-operative ventures

• Mapping the World - a project funded by the Research Support Libraries Programme to carry out series-level cataloguing of post-1850 overseas mapping
• Charles Booth Online Archive - images and documents relating to Booth's survey into life and labour in London (1886-1903)
• Charting the Nation: maps and associated archives 1550 to 1740 - map images, catalogue records, background information

Miscellaneous but interesting!

• The World Intellectual Property Organisation's page on copyright
• National Centre for Tactile Diagrams (NCTD) has now merged with RNIB to continue developing and promoting good practice in accessible information, including continuing work on tactile diagrams, maps and pictures for blind and partially sighted people of all ages and all walks of life. See also UK Association for Accessible Formats (UKAAF)
• Society for the History of Discoveries
• The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative
• The Analemma web site
• Frequently Asked Questions about Calendars
• Locating a UK university web site - this map shows all recognised Universities, University Colleges and Higher Education Colleges in the United Kingdom

Page last updated: 1/3/13