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•Historic Digimap service

•Ancient Roam

•Screen share

•Historic Download

•Questions

Historic Digimap

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What is Historic Digimap?

• JISC funded service

• Provides access to historic maps from 1843 – late 1990s, for users at subscribing colleges/universities

• Users must login with their college/university network, but no individual registration required

• EDINA design and host the service:

http://edina.ac.uk/digimap/

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What historic maps?

• Town Plan maps at 1:500, 1:528 and 1:1056 scales published from 1848 and 1939, for towns with a population in excess of 4000 at the time of survey,

• County Series maps at 1:2,500 and 1:10560 scales published between 1846 and 1969,

• National Grid maps at 1:1,250, 1:2,500 and 1:10560/10,000 scales, published from 1948 – 1996 (before the introduction of the Ordnance Survey's digital Land-Line product).

http://edina.ac.uk/digimap/description/products/historic_products.shtml

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Town plan sample

1895, scale 1:500

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County series sample

1896, Scale 1:2500

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National Grid sample

1983, Scale 1:1250

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Map revisions

• A map series covers a time period, for example the County Series ran from the 1840s to the 1960s.

• Within that time period, the maps were resurveyed periodically and the maps were revised.

• Not all areas were resurveyed, only those with significant change.

•1st Edition 1854 – 1901•Maps available in blue areas (note this map availability tool is in Historic Download)

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Map revisions

• County Series 1st revision 1893 - 1915

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Map revisions

• County Series 2nd revision 1906 - 1939

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Map revisions

• County series 3rd revision 1924 - 1949

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Historic Digimap facilities

Original service, make maps and download data – available until

December 2010

Ancient Roam, make

maps to view on screen

Historic Download, download

maps – TIFF

format

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•Historic Digimap service

•Ancient Roam

•Screen share

•Historic Download

•Questions

Historic Digimap

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Ancient Roam overview

Help and navigation

Task menu

Timeline

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Ancient Roam maps

• Fixed scales – user cannot select scale• Zoom in and out to different fixed scale map

views

• 5 Modern map views – to help you zoom into the right location

• 12 historical map views – different historical maps viewed at an optimal scale

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12 Historic map views

Plan (most detailed)

4 views 1:500 – 1:1250

Street 2 views 1:2500

Parish 2 views 1:2500-1:5000

Shire (least detailed)

4 views 1:10560

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Plan view 2

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Street view1

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Parish view 2

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Shire view 2

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Search

• Place name, full postcode or grid reference search options

• Place name database does not include street names

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Viewing historical maps

• The Timeline is located above the map pane. The timeline is not activated until a historical map is generated.

• Shows the availability of historical maps over each decade, for the current location and view level. Simply click on a decade to view the available map.

•Currently selected decade is highlighted in red

•Decades in blue mean there are maps available for that decade. Where there is more than one map available in a decade, the earliest map is shown.

•Decades in grey mean there are no historical maps available for that decade, at that location and map view.

•Your decade selection is retained when you move around and zoom in/out.

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Viewing historical maps

No available maps?

•Search again

•Pan around

•Zoom in or out

•Try a different decade

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Viewing historical maps

Pan around:

Click and drag the map i.e. click and hold the left mouse button, then drag to move the map.

Use the navigation control to move north, south, east or west:

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Viewing historical maps

Click and drag the red box to move to a new

location

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Viewing historical maps

To zoom in/out of the map, you can: Double click to zoom in

Use the mouse scroll wheel to zoom in or out. Use the drag zoom tool to zoom to a specific

area. Select the tool, then click on the map and drag to draw a box where you want to zoom.

Use the zoom slider bar to zoom in or out:

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Overlapping maps

•Overlapping map selection tool will be highlighted in red if overlapping maps occur (happens when neighbouring counties surveyed the same area more than once in the same time period – the maps are on top of each other in Ancient Roam)

•Sometimes overlapping maps cause blurring, as above

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Overlapping maps

Select a county from the list to display only

one map

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2 up view

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2 up view

•Select the decades for the maps that you wish to view by clicking the decades in the Timelines.

•Click or to return to the one map view

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Map Information

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Map details

Click once anywhere on map - Map series, tile, publication year…we do not have survey year

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MyMaps

• Save up to 200 maps• Available anytime

you login

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Save a map image

• Print facility not available at present

• Save a PNG map image to your computer, insert into documents

• Click the save as image to disk icon in the top right

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Save a map image

• A new browser window opens:

Right click on image, selectSave Image as…or Save picture as

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Forthcoming

• PDF printing• Underlying contemporary maps with a

slider to fade contemporary maps in or out• 4 map view• Survey year data to be added for County

Series maps – n.b. only available for Scotland

• Download National Grid tiles of data directly from Ancient Roam

• Download original map sheet from Ancient Roam – link in the Map Details window

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•Historic Digimap service

•Ancient Roam

•Screen share

•Historic Download

•Questions

Historic Digimap

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•Historic Digimap service

•Ancient Roam

•Screen share

•Historic Download

•Questions

Historic Digimap

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Select map data product

Click on any map series to select it for download

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Select product 2

Select Original map

sheets, National Grid tiles or both

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Search & Select Tiles screen

Select tiles here…once

you are in the right location

Search, select map

edition

List of selected tiles appears here

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Search

Additional search option

– Historic County or

Parish

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Select tiles

•Once you are in the right location, and can see tiles marked on the map…

•Click Select tiles and click on the map to select the tiles of interest

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Select tiles

• Selected tiles are highlighted on the map in red

• Selected tiles are in the list on the right

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Download screen

Here, you:1. name your order and confirm your details,2. refine your data order,3. order your data.

1. Name your order, confirm email address

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Download screen

2. Refine your data order – you can delete any unwanted tiles here.

Note that map sheets are included automatically, if you asked for map sheets AND National Grid tiles at the start

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Download screen

3. Select zip option and order data

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Confirmation received

You will receive an on-scren confirmation, which explains:

• You will receive an email when your order is ready.

• That your order will typically be ready within 48 hours (although generally it is much faster).

• You can check the status of your order on the My Account page

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Email received when ready

• Includes a link to collect data – note you must already be logged in to Historic Digimap to use the link

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Collect data

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Data download file contents

• Unzip the zip file to see the contents• Sub-folder for National Grid tiles and map

sheets….IF you requested both!

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Data download file contents

National Grid folder:• A TIFF file, for each tile of map data you selected.• An ESRI tfw world file, for each map data tile. These files

are read by ESRI GIS software to place the TIFF map image in the correct geographic location – KEEP THESE FILES IN THE SAME FOLDER AS THE TIFF FILES.

• A MapInfo tab world file which is read by MapInfo GIS software to place the TIFF map image in the correct geographic location

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Data download file contents

Map sheets folder:• A TIFF file, for each original map sheet you

selected.• A MapInfo tab world file which is read by

MapInfo GIS software to place the TIFF map image in the correct geographic location

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My Account

• My Account allows you to view details of your data orders and to check their status

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My Account

• Click on any order to see details• Resend order collection email option

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•Questions

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