MRP: Maps
Maps
Editorial history
15/08/11, CSG: Created page
Overview
This page lists
(1) Sample maps displaying data contained within this wiki
(2) Links to online and physically published maps of relevance to the subjects and content of this wiki
(3) Links to GIS mapping initiatives and standards of relavance to this wiki
Contents
- 1 Sample GIS mapping
- 2 David Rumsey Map Collection Database, Viewers, and blog
- 3 JISC sponsored Old Maps Online (finding and viewing tool)
- 4 Wikimedia Commons Mapping
- 5 Tufts digital library: County maps
- 6 Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure: Mapping Hundreds
- 7 Wikipedia Media Commons: Hundreds by county
- 8 Roehampton: County hearth tax maps
- 9 Family Search Maps
- 10 External online maps
Sample GIS mapping
To access the GIS maps below please ask the Wiki administrator for a separate authorisation URL
The following sample map links are provided to enable an exploration of data of different types
- the geographical location of SVJS subscribers; the geographical location of Dallison family members and the family's friendship network
- occupational data extracted from Prerogative Court of Canterbury wills for the 1640-99 period
- visual data from paintings and engravings for areas relevant to the Oxenden family.
The maps are best viewed in a separately opened window or windows
Geographical location
MAP 4: Geographic location of investors in 1650s & 60s
MAP_North_Weald_Kent_C17th_Houses
Occupation
Wag(g)oner_Lorry_Man_Inventories_1640-99
Visual
English_&_Dutch_C17th-C19th_River_Paintings
David Rumsey Map Collection Database, Viewers, and blog
See David Rumsey Map Collection overview
JISC sponsored Old Maps Online (finding and viewing tool)
See [http:www.oldmapsonline.org Old Maps Online]
- The site incorporates access to collections at the British Library, the National Library of Scotland, the Moravian Library in the Czech Republic and the prestigious David Rumsey Collection in California
- Other collections to be added later this year include those from Harvard University, the New York Public Library, the National Library of Wales, the Bodleian Library at Oxford and several major European libraries
Wikimedia Commons Mapping
County location maps
User:Nilfanion/Maps/Location maps
Ordinance Survey Open Data initiative
Ordinance Survey Open Space initiative
- OS OpenSpace APi enables OS maps to be displayed on non-commercial websites without charge
- Uses Javascript
Tufts digital library: County maps
Maps are displayed in a zoomable viewer enabling inspection of detail
Essex
To be added
Kent
To be added
Middlesex
See Middlesex
Surrey
To be added
Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure: Mapping Hundreds
See Overview of Hundred mapping project for England and Wales
Wikipedia Media Commons: Hundreds by county
Essex
Kent
To be added
Middlesex
To be added
Surrey
To be added
Roehampton: County hearth tax maps
Kent
Surrey
Surrey hearth Tax transcript, Lady Day, 1664
Family Search Maps
Parishes within a named county
Uses 1851 county boundaries mapped as layers onto Google Map, displayed within a FamilySearch frame
Available functionality includes:
(1) Listing all parishes within a county and displaying on Google Map
(2) Listing and displaying all parishes within a user defined radius
(3) Searching Family History Library Catalog, Family History Historical Records, & Family Search Research Wiki for sources and wiki articles on defined parish
Information displayed per parish includes:
(1) Probate court
(2) Diocese
(3) Hundred
See List of parishes, and maps of parish boundaries
External online maps
The following links provides maps of geographical relevance to the Oxenden and Dallison families:
Kent
- Kent Archaeological Society map of West Kent parish boundaries
- Kent Archaeological Society map of East Kent parish boundaries
London
C17th & C18th Kent maps
[Route map with London, Deptford, Shooters Hill, Dartford, Chatham & Rainham] by Emanuel Bowen after the earlier survey by John Ogilby, and published by John Owen in Britannia Depicta ..., 1764. On the verso is part of a description of London. Copper engraved map. Size 12 x 18 cms plus margins. Ref E9984. Digital image by courtesy of antiqueprints.com
