[Talk-GB] NLS crowdsource projects and more OOC maps

[Paul Williams]

The other thing NLS have recently added which I think must be mentioned are
the amazing and detailed OS town plans of the 1840s to 90s (
https://maps.nls.uk/os/townplans-england/). These cover most of the main
towns and cities of England and Wales mostly at 1:500 scale and are great
for seeing what a town looked like in the 19th century or for
OpenHistoricalMap mapping! There are also tiles/layers available for map
editors for these.

Cheers,
Paul Williams
(Paul The Archivist)


On Sat, 15 Jan 2022 at 21:04, Rob Nickerson <rob.j.nickerson at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm a big fan of the work of the maps team at NLS - in fact I am still
> geeking out over the things they showed us in a tour during a State of the
> Map Scotland many years ago! So it should be no surprise that I'm following
> their website. Two interesting things from the last month:
>
> Crowdsource project:
> After the success of the GB1900 project, capturing place names and written
> content from the Ordnance Survey’s 6-inch to the mile maps from 1888-1913,
> NLS are planning three new collaborative transcription projects in 2022 for
> people to participate in data gathering. Two for names, but the third is
> tracing footpaths. Exciting stuff with the project also supporting a
> machine learning programme.
> https://maps_transcription_nls.mailchimpsites.com/
>
> 1971 out of copyright maps:
> NLS have put online 2,332 detailed maps at scales of 1:1,250 to 1:25,000
> which were published in 1971, and have therefore just come out-of-copyright.
> https://maps.nls.uk/additions.html#125
>
> Enjoy and happy mapping :-)
>
> Thanks,
> *Rob*
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