Mapping Index

MapServer Development Site

Embryo mapserver test site with a few assorted sample maps of the Isle of Man to go with the genealogical content

• IOM High Resolution Historic Maps 1947, 1940, 1906, 1880 - Via the bitweaver mapper client ( problem with cleint on some new browsers )

• Open Street Map with historic overlays - Used a backgrounds to OSRM router software running on a local server Notes on available backgrounds

Other mapping work in progress

• ABC Street Atlas of London 1933
• 1940's Children's Encyclopedia Gallery of images from the 1940 Children's Encyclopedia
• Out of Copyright UK Maps
• Bartholomew UK Maps
• AA Maps
• OS Open Data OS Open Data 10k Overview
• Railway Map Links

Genealogical Reference data

• Old maps which OSM people have Cross reference of material available via the openstreetmap project
• New Popular Edition Maps Open source scans of the out of copyright OS maps
• National Library of Scotland Online map collection
• MAPCO : Map And Plan Collection Online MAPCO Collection of Historic Maps
• Map Of London 1868 By Edward Weller, F.R.G.S. Revised And Corrected To The Present Time By John Dower, F.R.G.S. (MAPCO Collection)
• Old London Maps Copyright © Sara Douglass Enterprises Pty Ltd - but still some useful material
• Old Books and Maps On-line shop with some free downloads of maps and other historic documents
• SABRE links to other map servers
• National Library of Scotland Legacy OS maps

Reference Material

• MapServer is an Open Source platform for publishing spatial data and interactive mapping applications to the web.
• OpenLayers: Free Maps for the Web - Useful tutorial on using at OpenGeo - Easymap profile generator
• OSGB Web Map Tools
• Importing Ordnance Survey data into UMN MapServer
• Ordnance Survey 50K Map Symbols from the Geograph web site
• OS Data mirror at openstreetmap
• OS Data mirror at mySociety, includes NSPD data
• Office of National Statistics Postcode Directory (NSPD)
• Office of National Statistics Standard Names and Codes (SNAC)