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The National Library of Scotland holds over two million cartographic items, making it the largest collection of maps in Scotland and one of the largest in the world. There are several separate collections of maps within the library's holdings, namely the Bartholomew Archive and the Graham Brown Collection (see below).
The originals of his maps, which are preserved in the National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, are characterised by neatness and accuracy. Pont's manuscript maps are key historical documents for their time, of importance in the study of place-names, settlements, and other studies. Many of the maps have miniature drawings of major buildings ...
John Adair FRS (1660–1718) was a Scottish surveyor and cartographer, noted for the excellence of his maps. [1]He first came to public notice in 1683, with a prospectus published in Edinburgh for a "Scottish Atlas" stating that the Privy Council of Scotland had engaged Adair, a "mathematician and skilfull (sic) mechanic", to survey the shires of Scotland.
A national lidar dataset refers to a high-resolution lidar dataset comprising most—and ideally all—of a nation's terrain. Datasets of this type typically meet specified quality standards and are publicly available for free (or at nominal cost) in one or more uniform formats from government or academic sources.
The National Library of Scotland has been developing its archive to make Ordnance Survey maps for all of Great Britain more easily available through their website, [96] whilst the Society for All British and Irish Road Enthusiasts (SABRE) also has a large easily available archive for large numbers of Ordnance Survey maps across all of Great ...
The search for a Wikimedian-in-Residence at the National Library of Scotland became the focus of a great deal of interest in the mainstream press as well as the blogosphere. The post has generated additional buzz about Wikimedia throughout Scotland, launching a revival of the ScotWiki chapter. To track the growth of this initiative, all press ...
An 'Auchen' is marked on the Andrew Armstrong map of 1775. [6] Later maps do not indicate a castle or tower however an 'Auchruglen' is shown between Windyhill and Corsstree, later Crosstree on John Thomson's map of 1832. [20] Lidar mapping suggests a structure close to Mount Pleasant and Crosstrees Farms. [27]
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.