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Subject: Scottish mapping news
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 14:23:34 +0100
From: Fleet, Christopher <[log in to unmask]>
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For those interested in Scottish mapping developments, the latest issue
of Cairt (July 2009) has just been mailed out to subscribers
-http://www.nls.uk/collections/maps/subjectinfo/cairt15.pdf
The main highlights in this issue:
* Forthcoming seminar on Mapping and Antiquities in Scotland - Tuesday
27 October 2009 ( leaflet and booking form -
http://www.nls.uk/collections/maps/subjectinfo/forum.html )
* New websites:
Ordnance Survey 25" to the mile mapping of Scotland (1855-1882)
http://www.nls.uk/maps/os/25inch/
Geo-referenced Google map overlays for Belgian GSGS maps (1940s)
http://geo.nls.uk/maps/belgium/
and bathymetrical charts (1897-1909)
http://geo.nls.uk/maps/
* Visualizing Urban Geographies - an historical urban web mapping
project
* A recently discovered estate plan (1766) for a part of Aberdeenshire
* Conceptual advertisements from the 1930s in the Bartholomew Archive
(http://www.nls.uk/bartholomew/ ) and a Bartholomew Archive Project
Update.
( Our latest issue of Discover -
http://www.nls.uk/about/discover-nls/index.html also features an article
on JG Bartholomew )
* Recent publications on Scottish mapping
* Paul Sandby exhibition
Past issues of Cairt can also be read at:
http://www.nls.uk/collections/maps/subjectinfo/cairt.html
Chris Fleet
Map Library
National Library of Scotland
33 Salisbury Place
EDINBURGH
EH9 1SL
United Kingdom.
Tel. 0131 623 3973
Fax. 0131 623 3971
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
View maps website: http://www.nls.uk/maps
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