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Miscellaneous
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.
- 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
Miscellaneous but interesting!
These pages have been compiled by: April Carlucci (British Library Map Library); Tinho da Cruz (Department of Geography, University of Liverpool), and; Anne Taylor (Cambridge University Library). Please Contact Us with any suggestions for inclusion, and details of links that don't work.
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