Maps of the UK and Ireland

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Maps of the UK and Ireland are available in various media.

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[edit] 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.

[edit] Online Maps

A number of websites offer maps of Great Britain and Ireland.

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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

[edit] Map Ireland

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] OpenStreetMap

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] Scotland in the 1920s

[edit] 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

[edit] Countryside Access Maps

The Countryside Agency has a statutory duty to prepare maps of all open country and registered common land in England (the Countryside Council for Wales has the same task in Wales).

  • External links: www.countryside.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

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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

[edit] Other

Hipkiss' Scanned Old Maps (http://www.hipkiss.org/data/maps.html)

[edit] See also

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