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Subject:        Scottish mapping news
Date:   Fri, 9 Jan 2009 12:02:52 -0000
From:   Fleet, Christopher <[log in to unmask]>
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With apologies for repeating things for some, our "CAIRT" Issue 14 has
just been mailed to subscribers, including articles about:

* Great Reform Act Plans and Reports (1832) - new website:
http://www.nls.uk/maps/towns/reform/index.html
* Mapping the Antonine Wall
* Bartholomew Archive Project update, and new website:
http://www.nls.uk/bartholomew
* Royal Scottish Geographical Society  - news, move, and awards
* Some interesting new early map acquisitions
* Forthcoming map talk - Mapping Mid-19th century Edinburgh - 26 March
* New geo-referenced historical map overlays: http://geo.nls.uk/maps
(including Ordnance Survey town plans (1847-1895), mosaicked and
overlaid on Google and Virtual Earth satellite and map layers:
http://www.nls.uk/maps/townplans/overlays.html )

Subscription to CAIRT is free, and electronic versions can be consulted
at:
CAIRT - http://www.nls.uk/collections/maps/subjectinfo/cairt.html
CAIRT Issue 14 - PDF; 1.6Mb -
http://www.nls.uk/collections/maps/subjectinfo/cairt14.pdf


Chris Fleet
Deputy Map Curator
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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