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Components of the GB Historical GIS are available for download by academic researchers from the UK Data Archive and from EDINA's UKBorders system. However, the main way most people can access the system is via the Vision of Britain web site, developed by the GB Historical GIS project with their lottery funding.
The Ordnance Survey Great Britain County Series maps were produced from the 1840s to the 1890s by the Ordnance Survey, with revisions published until the 1940s. The series mapped the counties of Great Britain at both a six inch and twenty-five inch scale with accompanying acreage and land use information.
The OpenStreetMap website itself is an online map, geodata search engine, and editor. OpenStreetMap was created by Steve Coast in response to the Ordnance Survey , the United Kingdom's national mapping agency, failing to release its data to the public under free licences in 2004.
The organisation remains fully owned by the UK government and retains many of the features of a public organisation. [50] [51] In September 2015 the history of the Ordnance Survey was the subject of a BBC Four TV documentary entitled A Very British Map: The Ordnance Survey Story. [52]
UK Government Web Archive (UKGWA) [66] United Kingdom 2003 MirrorWeb 7 1 The UK National Archives' UK Government Web Archive (UKGWA) is a fully open web archive. It includes over 5,000 central government websites and social media taken at regular intervals (1996 to present). The scope of UKGWA is outlined in the OSP27 document.
It is the official national archive of the UK Government and for England and Wales; and "guardian of some of the nation's most iconic documents, dating back more than 1,000 years." [5] There are separate national archives for Scotland (the National Records of Scotland) and Northern Ireland (the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland).
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