News from Patricia Killiard, University Library:
(From the University Library Map Department) - The University has for several years subscribed to Digimap, an online service run by EDINA that delivers current Ordnance Survey maps and map data of Great Britain to UK tertiary education. Also now available through Digimap is historic Ordnance Survey (OS) map data and I am pleased to say that the University has been able to take out a subscription.
To use the historic data you need a Personal Athens Account. [Note: Athens passwords, available to all students and staff, can be obtained from the College Library enquiry desk]. Then login to Digimap and select the ‘Historic Maps from Landmark’ option.
[Note that the ‘Ordnance Survey Maps and Data’ option will take you to the current data only. To use this you need a Personal Athens Account and you must also register with Digimap - see http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/maps/Dig.htm].
The Landmark Historic Map Collection includes:
- Ordnance Survey County Series maps at 1:2,500 and 1:10,560 scales published between 1843 and 1939
- all available OS National Grid maps at 1:1,250, 1:2,500 and 1:10560/10,000 scales published from 1945 and before the introduction of the OS digital Land-Line product in the early 1990s.
The maps cover England, Scotland, Wales and the Isle of Man - though full coverage of all areas at all scales and dates is not available. The historic maps can be viewed online, printed and downloaded as images for use in image processing and GIS software. You can also compare simultaneously up to four maps of the same location across different dates. More information is available at Digimap’s historic map availability page.
If Digimap does not provide the maps you want remember that the Map Department of Cambridge University Library has OS maps on paper as well as many other maps from different publishers and of different dates, for Great Britain and overseas.