Old Maps

[Monument]

Thought this link http://www.mynewsletterbuilder.com/tools/view_newsletter.php?newsletter_id=1409925123 might be of interest to some. I use their modern maps, and like the software. Am very excited about the old ones.

Humble apologies if there is already an old map thread somewhere. I couldn't find it.

[cell]

Looks like they missed out Scotland, typical!

"Each Historic Series product contains enough mapping credits for you to unlock 1600km2 from each historic survey wherever you want in England & Wales. "

[Alycidon]

Dissapointing development. This lot are charging £20 per module when perviously you could access the whole lot free, (including Scotland) on the http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/ site, but when I tried this link today the "500 Internal Server Error" notice is displayed, suggesting that the site has closed down. Could be another cheap reference source has gone commercial.

[Alycidon]

For once my cynical side has been proved wrong, must have been a temporary outage - see the old OS maps at http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/maps/index.jsp, save yourself a few quid!!

[Monument]

Cheers for all the negative responses. I find their software extremely functional if you want to more than just look at a map online.

[cell]

Apologies for sounding negative, but if the software doesn't cover where you are interested in, its not much good! Too often Scotland is missed out, I bought the full memory map package some time ago only to be disappointed that there was no satellite photos even though I'd paid for it. When I did get them, they were poor low res compared to microsoft/google. I will be asking them when they will be bringing out the old maps to cover Scotland, if they are promoting it as a feature it should be available to all. I bet OS have a hand in this, they seem to have a very tight control on their data and licence it strictly to different platforms and prevent cross usage. Having said that, personally I think that old overlays on new maps are fascinating and will be willing to pay for this function. Now can I get them on my Satmap, that what I really want!