Hi, just noticed that you cant even do an enhanced zoom on the site anymore. Does anyone know a good site for viewing maps?

Dave

Dave

- My zoom is working OK (for what its worth).

- I just use a single click on my mouse.

John L.

You need to select the map you want to look at, then "zoom" your browser to a size larger than 100%.

You can then press [Print Screen] and paste it into a graphics program. That method works much better than trying to do it with just the small image captured. (Allegedly!!).

I think we are talking "enhanced" here, when I try to use these methods, I lose definition.

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I lose definition terribly when I capture and then enlarge the small image on Old Maps. However, if I zoom the browser display it seems to be able to enlarge it without loss of definition (unless you go OTT with the zoom).

Hmmm they have defo changed the site since the last time i was on there.
I have tried the methods above, and the resolution becomes so low that i cant see anything.

Are there any other decent places to view old maps?

Dave

Hmmm they have defo changed the site since the last time i was on there.
I have tried the methods above, and the resolution becomes so low that i cant see anything.

Are there any other decent places to view old maps?

I see you are from Scotland and if you are looking for home country maps then this site will provide all the mapping from the 1500's to a few years ago.
http://geo.nls.uk/  National Library of Scotland.
Some of the mapping is geo-referenced, old OS maps, town plans etc etc.

They even provide an API for inclusion into your own web site should you so wish. I've got the 1940's data as a layer in one of my web sites as this particular OS data includes the rest of the UK.

http://www.oldmapsonline.org/ 
Just zoom right in to the area you want to view and the panel on the right shows you what is available. This library is growing all the time as people add maps. It is basically a front end interface to where the maps are. There are some little gems among them including original sketches from OS surveyors from the British Library.

In both of the above cases because of how the maps are served using any of the conventional ways of image grabbing i.e. dragging and dropping on Macs or right clicking in Windows, will result in no or poor image capture. The way round it is to invest in a screen grab software. The resulting images can be stitched together in PSP, Photoshop, Inkscape or any graphics package that supports layers so you can manipulate the tiles accurately.

Peter.

Hi, just noticed that you cant even do an enhanced zoom on the site anymore. Does anyone know a good site for viewing maps?

Often overlooked but the First Series 1:10560 Ordnance Survey County Series are all available free online via the British History Online site. The navigation is not as sophisticated as the old version of old-maps.co.uk but at maximum resolution detail can generally be easily read.

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/map.aspx?pubid=270 

http://www.npemap.org.uk/ 

Try this Roads site:

http://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/maps/ 

And select historic OS maps, they have 7th series, (late 40s/early 50s), New Popular (1930s) covering all UK and 2 1/2 inch covering most of UK.

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The enhanced zoom disappeared in May, see:

http://www.aditnow.co.uk/community/viewtopic.aspx?t=6897&pid=1 

As good as some of the alternatives are, nothing comes close to the 1:10000 you had of the OS maps on their site. It showed all the original information, not blocks of colour and no contours that you get with big zooms on so much of the stuff now.

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