Thanks for the ad, Andy ;-) These maps are from a British Library collection, which has previously been online in various forms, so it's not completely new - but hopefully this is a more accessible format.
There's a total of around 2-300 of these - the exact number varies depending on whether you count individual sheets - and the others will be going up over the next few days/weeks as I get the metadata checked. They cover England and Wales from the south coast up to approximately Liverpool-Hull, with a few gaps where the drawings were lost before being transferred. As Richard notes, they're the original survey drawings, and some are more draft-like than others - for example https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ordnance_Survey_Drawings_-_Alton_(OSD_124).jpg Each one has been georeferenced by the BL, and the coordinates for a bounding box and for the exact corner points are available; it's currently not displaying, but I'll be configuring this tonight. Please let me know if you think of anything interesting to do with them! Andrew. On 26 September 2013 11:42, Andy Mabbett <a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote: > Over 100, hand-drawn OS maps have just been uploaded to Wikimedia Commons: > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ordnance_Survey_Drawings > > These date from the 1810s and cover a variety of places in England and Wales. > > -- > Andy Mabbett > @pigsonthewing > http://pigsonthewing.org.uk > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
