Ordnance Survey – Great Britain's national mapping agency
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About the product
Ordnance Survey has one of the largest collections of historical mapping in the United Kingdom. As a result of a joint venture between Ordnance Survey and Landmark® Information Group, this extensive archive has been scanned to create Historical Map Data. National cover is available, dating back to the mid-19th century and derived from 1:10 560, 1:10 000 mapping and 1:2500 scale County Series, post-War National Grid, and superseded mapping that includes 1:1250 scale and 1:500 scale Town maps.
Suggested applications
- Environmental analysis
- Land and estate management
- Project planning
- Planning proposals
- Legal and historical research
- Reference and educational resource purposes
- Genealogy
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Take a look at how Historical Maps Data might appear in a GIS by launching our product viewer.
Features and benefits
- May be combined, using an appropriate GIS, with our contemporary vector map data products such as OS MasterMap®.
- Available in a range of raster formats.
- Provides hard copy output from your printer or plotter.
- Adds a historical dimension to your data holdings.
- Detailed mapping shows the shapes of building and fields.
- Combine information from different eras to analyse changes in land use.
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