Map Library Collections

One of the ten largest map libraries in the World:

• 2 million sheet maps

• 15,000 atlases

• 100,000 maps on microfilm

• Over 1 terabyte of digital mapping

Also gazetteers, cartographic reference books and periodicals, and planning reports…

Pont, 1583-1614

Pont /Blaeu – 1654

Tioram Castle, 1748

J. Finlayson, A plan of the Battle of Culloden…, 1746

Wood – 1821

Admiralty Chart: Survey of the Frith of Forth, by George Thomas... in 1815  

Modern detailed digital mapping – OS MasterMapThe most detailed Ordnance Survey mapping for anywhere in the United Kingdom (including towns!) can be viewed in the Map Library through a simple Viewer

Maps Website – www.nls.uk/maps• Over 8,000 high-resolution images of maps of Scotland (1560 to 1928).

During 2008:

• 14.8 million hits /maps webpages

• 12.9 million map image views

• 1,172 images and 1,611 printouts sent out

• 171 permission to publish requests

• Increasing geo-referenced content from 2004

• 13,000 more maps due online by summer 2009

Collaboration with external institutions

•Images, printouts and photocopies

•Digitisation of public library materials

•website linkages

•facsimile publications

•Scotlandsimages.com

•Geo-referencing – geographic retrieval

•Web 2.0 Google mashups and shared applications

DIGMAP Project - Discovering our Past World with Digitised Maps eContentplus Project: 2005-8 (portal.digmap.eu/)

Collaboration with external institutions

•Images, printouts and photocopies

•Digitisation of public library materials

•website linkages

•facsimile publications

•Scotlandsimages.com

•Geo-referencing – geographic retrieval

•Web 2.0 Google mashups and shared applications

Roy Military Survey, 1747-55

Ordnance Survey Town Plans – 1847-1895 – geo-referenced overlays

Ordnance Survey, surveyed 1852

Ordnance Survey, surveyed 1852

(geo.nls.uk/maps/glasgow1857/openlayers.html)

(geo.nls.uk/maps/newpopular/google.html)

http://geo.nls.uk/maps/loch_lomond_south/openlayers.html

Gazetteer for Scotland – mashup using NLS’ Web Map Service layers

(www.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz/gaztitle.html)

http://teaching.shc.ed.ac.uk/esh/msc_landscape/wtutorial/edinburghsouth.html

http://www.staremapy.cz/kml/1891-edinburgh/