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Historic Digimap

General

Following an agreement made between the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) and Landmark Information Group, EDINA offers a subscription service which delivers the valuable Landmark historic map collection to Tertiary Education. This service is called Historic Digimap and is one of the Digimap Collections.

The Landmark historic map data are digital scans of OS paper map sheets including:

• all available County Series maps at 1:2,500 and 1:10,560 scales published between 1843 and 1939;
• all available Town Plans at 1:500, 1:528 and 1:1,056 scales published from 1848 and 1939;
• all available National Grid maps at 1:1,250, 1:2,500 and 1:10,560/10,000 scales published from 1945 and before the introduction of the Ordnance Survey's digital Land-Line product

Historic Digimap is one service in the Digimap Collections. Users can view maps through web browsers, save maps for printing and download the historic map data for use in geographical information systems.

Institutions wanting access to the service are required to pay an annual subscription. This is separate from the subscription for access to other data in the Digimap Collections and as such. Subscription charges for the Historic Digimap are available from the JISC web site.

There are extensive help pages detailing how to use every aspect of the service and the data in your own GIS or CAD software:

Historic Digimap Help

The Digimap Blog, YouTube Channel, Facebook Page and Twitter Account all provide additional support for the service.

        

Data

Historic Digimap contains map data at scales ranging from 1:10,560 to 1:500 and dates ranging from 1843 to 1996; available for making maps online or for download. For a full list and detailed description see the Products Available page.

Historic Digimap has complete datasets for all the map series listed on the Products page, however not all the surveys have national coverage. First editions tend to have the most or even complete coverage, whereas the revisions tend to concentrate on area that change the most such as cities. Coverage maps are available in the service for each dataset. The town plans cover most of the towns and cities that had a population of around 4000 and over at the time of survey, a full list of towns covered is available to users in the help pages.

If you want to know what you can and can't do with the maps and data from Digimap please read the Landmark Licence Agreement.

Standard tasks

Standard tasks that Historic Digimap allows you to perform are:

• selecting your area of interest by zooming and panning contemporary maps
• viewing historic maps at one of 12 pre-defined scales
• searching for areas by postcode place name and also by historic county or parish
• printing out maps

Advanced tasks

In addition to the standard tasks listed above, Historic Digimap allows you to carry out a range of related, advanced tasks.

Download

Those with more specialist requirements can download map data for use in GIS software on their own desktop. You can:

• selection of map data product and area to download
• data available in Georeferenced TIFF format for use in a GIS or Graphics software
• data available cut into National Grid tiles or in original County Series sheets name, place name or from a map

Other Features

You can also:

• view 2 or 4 maps of the same area from different time periods at once
• request details such as published date for the maps on screen
• use an overview map to relocate the main map to other areas in the vicinity
• compare some historical maps with their contemporary equivalents