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.
• Go-Geo! - a geo-spatial resource discovery tool.
• The Landmap Project - this 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 Technical Advisory Service for Images, 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 map date codes on the WAML site.
• The George F. Cram Company (an American map publisher) has a web page of major, selected political changes from 1898 to 1997 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.
• "The Drawn Evidence: Scotland's Development Through its Architectural Archives from Industrialisation to the Millennium, 1780 - 2000.

Miscellaneous but interesting!

• GeoRef Provides access to over 2.3 million references to articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports, and theses, covering the geology of North America from 1785 to the present; and the geology of the rest of the world from 1933 to present.
• The World Intellectual Property Organisation's page on copyright
• National Centre for Tactile Diagrams
  Based in the UK, providing tactile diagrams, maps and pictures for blind and partially sighted people of all ages and all walks of life.
• 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.