Getting the Most out of the Maps Website

If you like to better understand the lives of your ancestors and you enjoy old maps - you will almost certainly enjoy this workshop! The workshop will explore the country's foremost online map collection. The National Library of Scotland, who host the maps website, holds over two million cartographic items, making it the largest collection of maps in Scotland and one of the largest in the world. There are several separate collections of maps within the library's holdings, namely the Bartholomew Archive and the Graham Brown Collection. At the library, there are maps relating to many different kinds of landscapes, such as estates, counties, railways, maps which show the trenches of World War I, and alpine areas.

Craig Statham takes us on a tour of the maps, shows how they can help us understand the environment our ancestors lived in, and explains how to get the most information from them..

Contents with location

1. Welcome - 00:00
2. Introduction - 01:02
3. Homepage - 02:20
4. Map finder with outlines - 04:42
5. Map finder with marker pins - 11:38
6. Georeferenced - 13:43
7. Side-by-side view - 22:54
8. By map maker - 25:33
9. Buying maps - 26:42
10. OS Sheet record viewer - 28:03
11. GB 1900 - 29:32
12. Fred Douglas viewer - 34:55
13. Map info, abbreviations and symbols - 36:35
14. Copyright issues - 39:06
15. Buying maps (more) - 39:58
16. Q&A: Military maps - 41:47
17. Q&A: Irish maps - 44:03
18. Q&A: Abbreviations (more) - 44:57
19. Q&A: Estate maps - 47:05
20. Q&A: Measuring map distances - 49:42
21. Q&A: Taking screenshots, copyrights (more) and buying (more) - 51:19