Historical Mapping for England, Wales and Scotland.

If you require 1:50,000 Ordnance Survey Mapping but Balk at the High Costs and Problematicical Rules Regarding Publishing and Web Mapping then these Solutions are Serious Choices to Consider. There is no Ordnance Survey Copyright, and the XYZ / National Library of Scotland Licence Permits:

1) Unlimited Digitising or Other Capture of the Features Shown,

2) Display on a Public Web Site

3) Print Reproduction (with a Copyright XYZ / NLS Statement )

4) No Annual Charges, Royalties, Per Click Fees or Other Hidden Charges.

5) Corporate Internal Use for All Your Usual Business Purposes.

For Many Publication Purposes they Provide an Attractive Replacement for Current Ordnance Survey Data. Additionally the Historical Data is ideal for Comparison with Geocoded Historical Aerial Photography, Modern Air Photography and Modern Mapping. Other Applications where this Data would be Ideal include Ecological Modelling and Contaminated Land Studies.

The Data is Available as Continuous GB Coverage (both Scotland and England & Wales data sets have been Mosaiced) or the Datasets in Individual Tiles:

The Ordnance Survey 1-inch New Popular with National Grid for England and Wales 1945-47

Ordnance Survey National Grid data (1:50000) - This Data was Created in the National Grid. We have Geocoded and Colour Enhanced the Data to provide Clear to Read Digital Mapping.

The Ordnance Survey 1 inch to 1 mile Popular Edition of Scotland 1921-1930

Ordnance Survey 1” to 1 mile (1:63360) Map Data from the 1920s and 30s converted into a seamless mosaic. This map series was originally produced in the Cassini projection.  For comparison with modern datasets the data has been geocoded, and reprojected to the British National Grid.

Images are available in ECW format.  This can be viewed in the ER Viewer (free piece of browsing software available from http://ermapper.com/downloads/).  This enables the images to be saved as TIFFs, BMP or JPEG if required.  ECW plugins can be supplied free of charge for all the major GIS and image software (ArcGIS, Mapinfo, Photoshop).