On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 14:23 -0500, Ian Turton wrote: > 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
Thanks. Looks like I can probably get what I need from their wms. Regards, Tim Bowden _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
