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Maps of the UK and Ireland are available in various media.
Contents
1 Maps on CD ROM 2 Online Maps
2.1 Ordnance Survey 2.2 Streetmap 2.3 Map Ireland 2.4 Multimap 2.5 Google Maps 2.6 OpenStreetMap 2.7 Free-map 2.8 NPEMap 2.9 Popular Edition Maps (England and Wales) 2.10 Old maps 2.11 Vision of Britain 2.12 Scotland in the 1920s 2.13 Election Maps 2.14 Countryside Access Maps 2.15 MAGIC 2.16 New Adlestrop Railway Atlas 2.17 Other
3 See also
Maps on CD ROM Fugawi offer a series of 1:50,000 and 1:250,000 scale UK Ordnance Survey maps including a
gazetteer of place names. The areas covered are:
Northern Scotland
Northern England and Central Scotland
Midlands and North Wales
Southern England and South Wales
Memory-Map, Anquet and Tracklogs also offer
Ordnance Survey maps on CD ROM, including 1:50,000 and 1:25,000 scale maps.
A Microsoft product, Autoroute 2005 , includes coverage of Great Britain though new roads such as the M6 Toll which opened in December 2003 are still shown as under construction. Coverage of Ireland and Northern Ireland is less detailed.
Online Maps A number of websites offer maps of Great Britain and Ireland.
Ordnance Survey The Ordnance Survey is an agency of the government of the United Kingdom .
link:
getamap.ordnancesurvey.co.uk
Coverage: Great Britain, the Isle of Man and Northern Ireland
Map image size: 400 x 400 pixels
Map scale: 6500 m per pixel to 5 m per pixel for Great Britain
Map scale: 6500 m per pixel to 10 m per pixel for the Isle of Man
Map scale: 6500 m per pixel to 75 m per pixel for Northern Ireland
Map date (as at March 2005): 2003 for Great Britain and Isle of Man
Map date (as at March 2005): 1997 for Northern Ireland more detailed maps
Map date (as at March 2005): 2000 for Northern Ireland less detailed maps
Search by: place name, postcode
Wikipedia templates: Gbmapping , Gbmappingsmall , Gbmaprim
Ordnance Survey Northern Ireland is another UK government agency.
link: OSNI Map Console with zoom to house level (requires free registration)
Ordnance Survey Ireland is an agency of the Government of Ireland .
Streetmap The Streetmap site is compiled and made available by BTex Limited.
External link: www.streetmap.co.uk
Coverage: Great Britain
Map image size: choice of 750 x 750 pixels or 1250 x 1250 pixels
Map scale: 333 m per pixel to 2 m per pixel
Map date (as at March 2005): varies, approximately 2000
Search by: street name, postcode, place name, Ordnance Survey grid reference , Landranger grid reference, latitude and longitude , telephone code
Map Ireland Multimap Wikipedia article: multimap.com
External link: www.multimap.com
Coverage: British Isles
Updated infrequently (new roads constructed 3 years before still not shown)
Map image size: choice of 500 x 300 pixels or 700 x 400 pixels
Map scale: 14 km per pixel to 21 m per pixel in some areas
Map scale: 14 km per pixel to 1.3 m per pixel in some areas
Search by: street name, postcode, place name, grid map reference
Option in some areas to show an aerial photograph with a semi-transparent map overlay when the mouse is hovered over the area
Wikipedia templates: mmukscaled , mmukpc prim , mmukpc
Google Maps Wikipedia article: Google Maps
External link: maps.google.co.uk
Coverage: British Isles
Map image size: Dynamically sized to fit web browser window
Search by: place name, street name, postcode, yellow pages listings
OpenStreetMap Free-map External link: http://free-map.org.uk/
Coverage: UK
Map image size: 400 by 320 pixels
Search by: place name, grid reference, lat/long
NPEMap External link: http://npemap.org.uk/
Coverage: UK
Map date: varies, but most are 1940s or early 1950s
Map image size: 125x125 pixels/grid square
Map scale: 1 inch to the mile (1:63,500)
Licence: cc-by-nc
Search by: place name, postcode
Popular Edition Maps (England and Wales) Old maps External link: www.old-maps.co.uk
Map date: varies, mostly late victorian , around 1890
Map image size: preview 600 x 320 pixels, detailed 2666 x 1786 pixels
Map scale: about 0.894 m per pixel for the detailed map
Search by: place name, numeric grid reference
Wikipedia template: GBvosi
Vision of Britain External link: www.visionofbritain.org.uk
Coverage: Great Britain
Map image size: 450 x 450 pixels
Three complete sets of geo-referenced scanned images of Ordnance Survey one inch-to-the-mile maps of Britain: the 19th century First Series, the 1940s New Popular Edition and the inter-war Land Use Survey of Great Britain
Scotland in the 1920s Election Maps External link: www.election-maps.co.uk
Coverage: UK
Map image size: 580 x 540 pixels
Map scale: 10 m per pixel to 50 cm per pixel with switchable smaller scale overview
Full colour
Search by: Westminster Parliamentary Constituency, Scottish Parliamentary Constituency, Welsh Assembly Constituency, Local Authority, European Region, Scottish Parliament/Welsh Assembly Electoral Region
Layers show boundaries for search items and Parish , Ward , Electoral Division, County and GLA Constituency
Countryside Access Maps Natural England (formerly the Countryside Agency ) has a statutory duty to prepare maps of all open country and registered common land in England and the Countryside Council for Wales has the same task in Wales).
External links: www.countrysideaccess.gov.uk (England), www.ccw.gov.uk (Wales)
Coverage: England and Wales
Map edition (at larger scales): Ordnance Survey Landplan (1:10 000)
Map image size: 550 x 400 pixels
Map scale: up to 1.3 m per pixel
Greyscale with access information in colour
Search by: Place name, postcode, grid reference
MAGIC MAGIC is a web-based interactive map intended to bring together information on key environmental schemes and designations in one place. MAGIC partners are DEFRA (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs), The Countryside Agency , English Heritage , English Nature , The Environment Agency , The Forestry Commission and The ODPM (Office of the Deputy Prime Minister).
External link: www.magic.gov.uk
Coverage: England
Map image size: 890 x 500 pixels
Map scale: 1.4 km per pixel to 50 cm per pixel or less to resolution of underlying mapping
Underlying mapping is shown in greyscale with a watermark at higher resolutions
Layers show many datasets from the participating organisations.
New Adlestrop Railway Atlas PDF file
External link: http://www.systemed.net/atlas/
Work in progress
Current coverage: Wales and England south of York / Manchester
Shows railway stations and lines whether open, closed or preserved
Other Hipkiss' Scanned Old Maps (http://www.hipkiss.org/data/maps.html )
See also
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