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Incredibly Detailed Map of Future London (1893-6)
mayexist
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11/14/2013
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Via Mapping London:
Here’s a real treat. The National Library of Scotland’s Map Department, supported by David Rumsey, have taken some very high-resolution scans of the Ordnance Survey 1893-6 1:1056 (that’s 60 inches to the mile!) set of 500+ maps of London and, crucially, reorientated and stitched them together, so that they can be presented seamlessly (using OpenLayers) on top of a “standard” Google web map or OpenStreetMap, with the base map acting as a modern context.
The detail in these maps is breathtaking. In the above extract of the eastern end of Fleet Street, you can see each individual alleyway.
Here’s University College London’s main building – with internal stairways, rooms and even wall thicknesses visible:
The maps are available at this resolution for the whole of Victorian London. The detail is, in some cases, on a par or occasionally even more detailed than the modern gold standard, Ordnance Survey MasterMap. In some places, individual trees are shown.
View the map interactively here.
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