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Historic Digimap

http://edina.ac.uk/digimap/

What is Historic Digimap?

• JISC funded service

• Provides access to historic maps from 1843 – late 1990s, for users at subscribing colleges/universities

• Users must login with their college/university network, but no individual registration required

• EDINA design and host the service:

http://edina.ac.uk/digimap/

What historic maps?

• Town Plan maps at 1:500, 1:528 and 1:1056 scales published from 1848 and 1939, for towns with a population in excess of 4000 at the time of survey,

• County Series maps at 1:2,500 and 1:10560 scales published between 1846 and 1969,

• National Grid maps at 1:1,250, 1:2,500 and 1:10560/10,000 scales, published from 1948 – 1996 (before the introduction of the Ordnance Survey's digital Land-Line product).

http://edina.ac.uk/digimap/description/products/historic_products.shtml

Town plan sample

1895, scale 1:500

County series sample

1896, Scale 1:2500

National Grid sample

1983, Scale 1:1250

Map revisions

• A map series covers a time period, for example the County Series 1:10560 series ran from the 1840s to the 1960s.

• Within that time period, the maps were resurveyed periodically and the maps were revised.

• Not all areas were resurveyed, only those with significant change.

•1st Edition 1849 – 1899•Maps available in blue areas (note this map availability tool is in Historic Download)

Map revisions

• County Series 1st revision 1888 - 1914

Map revisions

• County Series 2nd revision 1900 - 1949

Map revisions

• County series 3rd revision 1922 - 1969

Historic Digimap facilities

Ancient Roam: view maps, print

and download A3/A4 PDF

maps

Historic Download, download maps –

TIFF format

Ancient Roam overview

Help and navigation

Task menu

Timeline

Ancient Roam maps

• Fixed scales – user cannot select scale• Zoom in and out to different fixed scale map

views

• 5 modern map views – to help you zoom into the right location

• 12 historic map views – different historical maps viewed at an optimal scale

12 Historic map views

Plan (most detailed)

4 views 1:500 – 1:1250

Street 2 views 1:2500

Parish 2 views 1:2500-1:5000

Shire (least detailed)

4 views 1:10560

Plan view 2

Street view1

Parish view 1

Shire view 2

Search

• Place name, full postcode or grid reference search options

• Place name database does not include street names

Viewing historical maps

• The Timeline is located above the map pane. The timeline is not activated until a historical map is generated.

• Shows the availability of historical maps over each decade, for the current location and view level. Simply click on a decade to view the available map.

•Currently selected decade is highlighted in red

•Decades in blue mean there are maps available for that decade. Where there is more than one map available in a decade, the earliest map is shown.

•Decades in grey mean there are no historical maps available for that decade, at that location and map view.

•Your decade selection is retained when you move around and zoom in/out.

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Viewing historical maps

No available maps?

•Search again

•Pan around

•Zoom in or out

•Try a different decade

Viewing historical maps

Click and drag the red box to move to a new

location

Viewing historical maps

To zoom in/out of the map, you can: Double click to zoom in

Use the mouse scroll wheel to zoom in or out. Use the drag zoom tool to zoom to a specific

area. Select the tool, then click on the map and drag to draw a box where you want to zoom.

Use the zoom slider bar to zoom in or out:

Viewing historical maps

Pan around:

• Click and drag the map i.e. click and hold the left mouse button, then drag to move the map.

• Use the navigation control to move north, south, east or west:

Overlapping maps

•Overlapping map selection tool will be highlighted in red if overlapping maps occur (happens when neighbouring counties surveyed the same area more than once in the same time period – the maps are on top of each other in Ancient Roam)

•Sometimes overlapping maps cause blurring, as above

Overlapping maps

Select a county from the list to display only

one map

2 up view

2 up view

•Select the decades for the maps that you wish to view by clicking the decades in the Timelines.

•Click or to return to the one map view

Map Information

Map details

Click then once anywhere on map - Map series, tile, publication year…we do not have survey year for England and Wales county series

MyMaps

• Click here to save maps

• Available anytime you login

• Give you details such as View, date of creation

Save a map image

• Save a PNG map image to your computer, insert into documents

• Click the save as image to disk icon in the top right

Save a map image

• A new browser window opens:

Right click on image, selectSave Image as…or Save picture as

Print PDF map

• Click Print icon opens new window

• Preview map area• Options – title, grid lines,

include annotations• A3/A4 PDF maps• Include copyright

statement

Select map data product

Click on any map series to select it for download

Select product 2

Select Original map

sheets, National Grid tiles or both

Search & Select Tiles screen

Select tiles here…once

you are in the right location

Search, select map

edition

List of selected tiles appears here

Search

Additional search option

– Historic County or

Parish

Select tiles

•Once you are in the right location, and can see tiles marked on the map…

•Click Select tiles and click on the map to select the tiles of interest

Select tiles

• Selected tiles are highlighted on the map in red

• Selected tiles are in the list on the right

Download screen

Here, you:1. name your order and confirm your details,2. refine your data order,3. order your data.

1. Name your order, confirm email address

Download screen

2. Refine your data order – you can delete any unwanted tiles here.

Note that map sheets are included automatically, if you asked for map sheets AND National Grid tiles at the start

Download screen

3. Select zip option and order data

Confirmation received

You will receive an on-scren confirmation, which explains:

• You will receive an email when your order is ready.

• That your order will typically be ready within 48 hours (although generally it is much faster).

• You can check the status of your order on the My Account page

Email received when ready

• Includes a link to collect data – note you must already be logged in to Historic Digimap to use the link

Collect data

Data download file contents

• Unzip the zip file to see the contents• Sub-folder for National Grid tiles and map

sheets….IF you requested both!

Data download file contents

National Grid folder:• A TIFF file, for each tile of map data you selected.• An ESRI tfw world file, for each map data tile. These files

are read by ESRI GIS software to place the TIFF map image in the correct geographic location – KEEP THESE FILES IN THE SAME FOLDER AS THE TIFF FILES.

• A MapInfo tab world file which is read by MapInfo GIS software to place the TIFF map image in the correct geographic location

Data download file contents

Map sheets folder:• A TIFF file, for each original map sheet you

selected.• A MapInfo tab world file which is read by

MapInfo GIS software to place the TIFF map image in the correct geographic location

My Account

• My Account allows you to view details of your data orders and to check their status

My Account

• Click on any order to see details• Resend order collection email option