================================================ MAPS-L ** MAPS-L ** MAPS-L ** MAPS-L ** MAPS-L ================================================ Subject: Unpublished Stamp Land Use Survey maps now on-line Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 From: Humphrey Southall <[log in to unmask]> To: A forum for issues related to map & spatial data librarianship <[log in to unmask]> L.Dudley Stamp's Land Utilisation Survey of Great Britain mapped land use right across Great Britain. Schoolchildren did the detailed survey work, plotting local land uses onto six inch to the mile maps which were sent back to Stamp's base at the LSE. The plan was to publish the results using OS Popular Series One Inch maps as a base, but lack of funds meant that 56 of the one inch sheets, covering much of upland Scotland, were never published. Stamp's team did create a set of very carefully hand-painted sheets covering these areas, and deposited them with the Royal Geographical Society in London (RGS Control No. 568206), but this still meant that they were very inaccessible to people in the areas covered. I am pleased to announce that geo-referenced images of these sheets are now included in the Vision of Britain web site. When we went live last year, the site included two complete sets of one-inch maps of Britain, the 19th century First Series and the 1940s New Popular Edition, funded by the lottery, plus a set of all the published Stamp maps, funded by the Environment Agency and DEFRA. This addition was obviously not done with lottery money. I am grateful to the Frederick Soddy Trust for funding Paula Aucott to do the geo-referencing work; to Dan Re'em and Imperial Mapping Ltd for scanning the maps for us at no charge; to the Royal Geographical Society for providing us with access to the maps; and once again to the copyright holder, who has been enormously generous and helpful. Adding the unpublished sheets means that you no longer get blank areas when you zoom in on highland Scotland, and it also means that in a sense the whole of Stamp's survey has finally been published. To see the maps, you can go direct to the "map library" part of our site via: http://www.VisionOfBritain.org.uk/maps If you like, you can immediately start zooming in on your chosen area, but at some stage you will need to go to the bottom right of the page and select "Land Use Map". We have not figured out how to provide a key on the same page, but one is available here: http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/footer/doc_text_for_title.jsp?topic=sources&seq=6 Of course, the Vision of Britain site is designed to present small parts of the LUS maps to people interested in local history -- along with everything else we know about a particular locality. I am afraid I cannot offer assistance to academic researchers wanting direct access to whole maps, but the plan is for the Stamp maps to be made available for academic use through EDINA. Humphrey Southall ==================================== Humphrey Southall Reader in Geography/Director, Great Britain Historical GIS Project Department of Geography, University of Portsmouth Buckingham Building, Lion Terrace, Portsmouth PO1 3HE GIS Project Office: (023) 9284 2500 Home office: (020) 8853 0396 Mobile: 0796 808 5454 Web site: http://www.VisionOfBritain.org.uk About us: http://www.gbhgis.org --