On Jan 5, 2008 12:19 AM, Tim Bowden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 16:50 -0800, Tyler Bell wrote: > > Short summary: The most significant changes happened in 1974. There > > is significant change between the present counties and 1974; less so > > between those leading up to 1974 and the first edition OS maps, but > > still enough to avoid basing research conclusions on. I was crying > > out for this dataset for some placename spatial analysis back in '95; > > I still don't know of a public resource sadly. > > > > -- TB > > > > Thanks Tyler and Barry. The historic counties trust stuff is good. It's > provides a great outline of the development and changes of the county > boundaries, and the confusions about different types of county > boundaries. Pity their historical mapping doesn't yet cover the entire > UK. It seems they're using the OS First edition maps as their primary > source. Are there scanned copies of these available in the public > domain (or otherwise freely distributable)? As far as boundaries are > concerned, I'm not particularly interested in anything after 1888. I'm > trying to tie historical events/places to then current counties. >
Have you looked at the public site GBHGIS built using lottery funding at www.visionofbritain,org,uk which should give that level of information fairly easily. There's an OGC WMS sitting there that you can query for historic county locations. Ian -- Ian Turton http://www.geotools.org http://pennspace.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
