Maps of the UK and Ireland
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'''Maps of the UK and Ireland''' are available in various media.
==Maps on CD ROM==
ISYS OUTDOORS, [[Anquet Maps]] and [[Fugawi]] offer a series of 1:25,000, 1:50,000 and 1:250,000 scale UK [[Ordnance Survey]] maps including a
[[gazetteer]] of place names. The areas covered are:
* Scotland
* England
* Wales
* Isle of Man
ISYS OUTDOORS, Memory-Map, Anquet and Tracklogs also offer [[Ordnance Survey]] maps on CD ROM, including 1:50,000 and 1:25,000 scale maps.
A [[Microsoft]] product, ''Autoroute 2005'', includes coverage of Great Britain though new roads such as the [[M6 Toll]] which opened in December [[2003]] are still shown as under construction. Coverage of Ireland and [[Northern Ireland]] is less detailed.
==Online Maps==
A number of [[websites]] offer maps of Great Britain and Ireland.
===Current mapping===
====Ordnance Survey====
The [[Ordnance Survey]] is an agency of the [[government]] of the [[United Kingdom]].
link: [http://getamap.ordnancesurvey.co.uk getamap.ordnancesurvey.co.uk]
*Coverage: Great Britain, the [[Isle of Man]] and [[Northern Ireland]]
*Map image size: 400 x 400 pixels
*Map scale: 6500 m per pixel to 5 m per pixel for Great Britain
*Map scale: 6500 m per pixel to 10 m per pixel for the Isle of Man
*Map scale: 6500 m per pixel to 75 m per pixel for Northern Ireland
*Map date (as at March 2005): [[2003]] for Great Britain and Isle of Man
*Map date (as at March 2005): [[1997]] for Northern Ireland more detailed maps
*Map date (as at March 2005): [[2000]] for Northern Ireland less detailed maps
*Map image license: [http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/site/legal/ No commercial, limited personal, no redistribution] [http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/]
*Search by: place name, [[UK postcodes|postcode]]
*Wikipedia templates: [[Template:Gbmapping|Gbmapping]], [[Template:Gbmappingsmall|Gbmappingsmall]], [[Template:Gbmaprim|Gbmaprim]]
[[Ordnance Survey Northern Ireland]] is another UK government agency.
link: [http://maps.osni.gov.uk/MapConsoleProducts.aspx OSNI Map Console] with zoom to house level (requires free registration)
[[Ordnance Survey Ireland]] is an agency of the [[Government of Ireland]].
====Streetmap====
The Streetmap site is compiled and made available by BTex Limited.
*External link: [http://www.streetmap.co.uk www.streetmap.co.uk]
*Coverage: Great Britain
*Map image size: choice of 750 x 750 pixels or 1250 x 1250 pixels
*Map scale: 333 m per pixel to 2 m per pixel
*Map date (as at March 2005): varies, approximately [[2000]]
*Search by: street name, postcode, place name, Ordnance Survey [[grid reference]], Landranger grid reference, [[latitude]] and [[longitude]], telephone code
*Map image license: No reuse
====MAPCO====
*External link: [http://archivemaps.com/mapco/index.htm http://archivemaps.com/mapco/index.htm]
*External link: [http://archivemaps.com http://archivemaps.com]
*Number of maps displayed (as at August 2007): 57
*Map dates (as at August 2007):
**[http://archivemaps.com/mapco/london.htm London c1560-1925]
**[http://archivemaps.com/mapco/britisle.htm British Isles 1800-1883]
*Map images: High resolution, with clickable enlarged views.
*Map image license: Free for personal use and non-commercial (not for profit) organizations.
====Map Ireland====
*External link: [http://www.map-ireland.com/route/map.asp?A=init www.map-ireland.com]
*Coverage: [[Ireland]] ([[Republic of Ireland]] and [[Northern Ireland]])
*Map image size: choice of 342 x 292 pixels or 400 x 305 pixels
*Map scale: 300 m per pixel to 15 m per pixel in rural areas
*Map scale: 300 m per pixel to 1.5 m per pixel in urban areas
*Search by: place name
====Multimap====
*Wikipedia article: [[multimap.com]]
*External link: [http://www.multimap.com www.multimap.com]
*Coverage: [[British Isles]]
*Updated infrequently (new roads constructed 3 years before still not shown)
*Map image size: choice of 500 x 300 pixels or 700 x 400 pixels
*Map scale: 14 km per pixel to 21 m per pixel in some areas
*Map scale: 14 km per pixel to 1.3 m per pixel in some areas
*Map image license: [http://www.multimap.com/static/condit_new.htm No reuse]
*Search by: street name, postcode, place name, grid map reference
*Option in some areas to show an aerial photograph with a semi-transparent map overlay when the mouse is hovered over the area
*Wikipedia templates: [[Template:mmukscaled|mmukscaled]], [[Template:mmukpc|mmukpc]]
====Google Maps====
*Wikipedia article: [[Google Maps]]
*External link: [http://maps.google.co.uk maps.google.co.uk]
*Coverage: British Isles
*Map image size: Dynamically sized to fit [[web browser]] window
*Map image copyright: [http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/help/legalnotices_maps.html Limited private, limited reuse]
*Search by: place name, street name, postcode, yellow pages listings
====OpenStreetMap====
*Wikipedia article: [[OpenStreetMap]]
*External link: http://www.openstreetmap.org/
*Coverage: [[London]], [[Birmingham]], [[Bedford]], [[Isle of Wight]], [[Weybridge]], [[Chertsey]], [[Shepperton]] in detail
*Map image size:
*Search by: place name
*A [[collaborative mapping]] project
*Map Image license: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
====Free-map====
*External link: http://free-map.org.uk/
*Coverage: UK
*Map image size: 400 by 320 pixels
*Search by: place name, grid reference, lat/long
*Map image license 'freely-available data'
====Election Maps====
*External link: [http://www.election-maps.co.uk www.election-maps.co.uk]
*Coverage: UK
*Map image size: 580 x 540 pixels
*Map scale: 10 m per pixel to 50 cm per pixel with switchable smaller scale overview
*Full colour
*Search by: Westminster Parliamentary Constituency, Scottish Parliamentary Constituency, Welsh Assembly Constituency, Local Authority, European Region, Scottish Parliament/Welsh Assembly Electoral Region
*Layers show boundaries for search items and [[Parish]], [[Ward (politics)|Ward]], Electoral Division, [[County]] and [[Greater London Authority|GLA]] Constituency
====Countryside Access Maps====
[[Natural England]] (formerly the [[Countryside Agency]]) has a statutory duty to prepare maps of all open country and registered common land in England and the [[Countryside Council for Wales]] has the same task in Wales).
*External links: [http://www.countrysideaccess.gov.uk/things_to_do/open_access www.countrysideaccess.gov.uk] (England), [http://www.ccw.gov.uk/interactive-maps.aspx www.ccw.gov.uk] (Wales)
*Coverage: England and Wales
*Map edition (at larger scales): Ordnance Survey Landplan (1:10 000)
*Map image size: 550 x 400 pixels
*Map scale: up to 1.3 m per pixel
*Greyscale with access information in colour
*Search by: Place name, postcode, grid reference
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====MAGIC====
MAGIC is a web-based interactive map intended to bring together information on key environmental schemes and designations in one place. MAGIC partners are [[DEFRA]] (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs), The [[Countryside Agency]], [[English Heritage]], [[English Nature]], The [[Environment Agency]], The [[Forestry Commission]] and The [[ODPM]] (Office of the Deputy Prime Minister).
*External link: [http://www.magic.gov.uk www.magic.gov.uk]
*Coverage: [[England]]
*Map image size: 890 x 500 pixels
*Map scale: 1.4 km per pixel to 50 cm per pixel or less to resolution of underlying mapping
*Underlying mapping is shown in [[greyscale]] with a [[digital watermark|watermark]] at higher resolutions
*Layers show many datasets from the participating organisations.
====192.com====
*Wikipedia article: [[192.com]]
*External link: [http://www.192.com/maps www.192.com/maps]
*Coverage: UK
*Map image size: choice of 340 x 340 or 500 x 340
*Map scale: 12.5cm per pixel, UK wide & 4cm per pixel for central London
*Search by: street name, town/city, postcode, business & residential listings
====Other====
* http://www.pickatrail.com/jupiter/location/europe/england/england.html - Map of England and Wales: Counties and Unitary Authorities
===Historic mapping===
====Popular Edition Maps (England and Wales)====
This site has scanned images of the Ordnance Survey One Inch Popular (4th) Edition maps. These inter-war maps are similar in style to the later New Popular Edition but pre-date the GB National Grid.
*External link: http://www.ponies.me.uk/maps/osmap.html
*Coverage: England and Wales (75%/slowly increasing)
*Map date: varies, but most are 1920s or 1930s
*Map scale: 1 inch to the mile (1:63,360)
*Map image licence: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales]
*Search by: none
====NPEMap====
This site has scanned images of the Ordnance Survey One Inch New Popular (6th) Edition maps. These post-war maps include the modern GB National Grid.
*External link: http://npemap.org.uk/
*Coverage: UK
*Map date: varies, but most are 1940s or early 1950s
*Map image size: 125x125 pixels/grid square
*Map scale: 1 inch to the mile (1:63,360)
*Map image license: [http://www.npemap.org.uk/tileLicence.html Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial Licence 2.5]
*Search by: place name, postcode
====Old maps====
*External link: [http://www.old-maps.co.uk www.old-maps.co.uk]
*Map date: varies, mostly late [[victorian era|victorian]], around [[1890]]
*Map image size: preview 600 x 320 pixels, detailed 2666 x 1786 pixels
*Map scale: about 0.894 m per pixel for the detailed map <!-- "6 inch" = 1:10560 scanned at 300 dpi -->
*Search by: place name, numeric grid reference
*Wikipedia template: [[Template:GBvosi|GBvosi]]
*Map image license: [http://www.old-maps.co.uk/terms.htm Non commercial and limited private use]
====The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection====
**External link: [http://www.davidrumsey.com/directory/where/Ireland/?page=1]
**Coverage: Ireland and Britain
**Map date: 1738 - 1929
**Map scale: High resolution
**Map image license: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 Generic
====Vision of Britain====
*External link: [http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/maps/map_lib_page.jsp?main=true www.visionofbritain.org.uk]
*Coverage: Great Britain
*Map image size: 450 x 450 pixels
*Three complete sets of geo-referenced scanned images of Ordnance Survey one inch-to-the-mile maps of Britain: the 19th century First Series, the 1940s New Popular Edition and the inter-war [[Land Utilisation Survey of Britain]], overprinted on Ordnance Survey Popular Edition (4th Ed) sheets. The Land Utilisation maps include the unpublished maps of upland Scotland, using the watercolour originals held by the [[Royal Geographical Society]]
*All this material is held in an open access web map server (WMS), following Open Geospatial Consortium standards, and can be used by other web sites as base maps
*Map image copyright: see discussion page
====Scotland in the 1920s====
*External link: [http://www.nls.uk/digitallibrary/map/early/os_scotland_popular_list.html www.nls.uk/digitallibrary/map/early/os_scotland_popular_list.html]
*Coverage: Scotland
*Map Dates: [[1921]] to [[1928]]
*Map Edition: Ordnance Survey One-inch ''Popular''
*Map image size: 700 x 500 pixels
*Map scale: 20 m per pixel to 1.5 m per pixel or less to resolution of mapping
====New Adlestrop Railway Atlas====
*[[Portable Document Format|PDF]] file
*External link: [http://www.systemed.net/atlas/ http://www.systemed.net/atlas/]
*Work in progress
*Current coverage: Wales and England south of York / Manchester
*Shows railway stations and lines whether open, closed or preserved
====Other====
* http://homepage.tinet.ie/~cronews/geog/census/codense.html - Population density by county in Ireland, in 1841, 1901, and 2002.
* Hipkiss' Scanned Old Maps (http://www.hipkiss.org/data/maps.html)
* http://www.hipkiss.org/cgi-bin/maps.pl?cat=scotland - Maps of Scotland
* http://www.hipkiss.org/cgi-bin/maps.pl?cat=ireland - Maps of Ireland
* http://www.hipkiss.org/cgi-bin/maps.pl?cat=england - Maps of England
* http://www.hipkiss.org/cgi-bin/maps.pl?cat=wales - Maps of Wales
==See also==
*[[Maps of the United States]]
==External links==
* [http://www.isysoutdoors.com/ ISYS OUTDOORS - Digital Guides and Ordnance Survey maps]
* [http://www.anquet.co.uk/ Anquet - Ordnance Survey's & Harvey digital mapping for outdoor enthusiast's and businesses]
* [http://www.centremapslive.co.uk/ Access Ordnance Survey's digital mapping for licensed download]
* [http://www.centremaps.co.uk/ Ordnance Survey's paper mapping products]
* [http://www.mapyx.com/ Mapyx - Free digital mapping software with paid-for upgrade option and access to low-cost Ordnance Survey maps]
[[Category:Maps of the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Maps of Ireland]]