Exploring the snake evolution (wild's gravity).pdf
Extracting and Sharing Data from Historical Maps
1. National Library of Scotland
Leabharlann Nàiseanta na h-Alba
Chris Fleet
Extracting and sharing data
from historical maps
2. National Library of Scotland
Leabharlann Nàiseanta na h-Alba
● NLS maps website
● Sharing georeferenced maps
● Sharing spatial data
● Data extraction research
Extracting and sharing data
from historical maps
3. National Library of Scotland
Leabharlann Nàiseanta na h-Alba
NLS MAPS WEBSITE OVERVIEW
▪ NLS paper collections
ca. 2 million maps
▪ NLS Map Images website
225,000 online maps -
ca. 15% of whole collection
▪ ca. 600 georeferenced layers
▪ 2012-2019 - ca. 20,000 new
maps digitised per annum
https://maps.nls.uk
Extracting and sharing data
from historical maps
4. National Library of Scotland
Leabharlann Nàiseanta na h-Alba
FIND BY PLACE - BOUNDING BOX SEARCH INTERFACE
Extracting and sharing data
from historical maps
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/find/
5. National Library of Scotland
Leabharlann Nàiseanta na h-Alba
FIND BY PLACE - BOUNDING BOX SEARCH INTERFACE
Extracting and sharing data
from historical maps
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/find/
6. National Library of Scotland
Leabharlann Nàiseanta na h-Alba
FIND BY PLACE - MARKER SEARCH INTERFACE
Extracting and sharing data
from historical maps
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/find/marker/
7. National Library of Scotland
Leabharlann Nàiseanta na h-Alba
EXPLORE GEOREFERENCED MAPS VIEWER
Extracting and sharing data
from historical maps
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/
8. National Library of Scotland
Leabharlann Nàiseanta na h-Alba
EXPLORE GEOREFERENCED MAPS VIEWER - CHOOSING LAYERS
Extracting and sharing data
from historical maps
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/
9. National Library of Scotland
Leabharlann Nàiseanta na h-Alba
EXPLORE GEOREFERENCED MAPS VIEWER - CHANGING TRANSPARENCY
Extracting and sharing data
from historical maps
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/
10. National Library of Scotland
Leabharlann Nàiseanta na h-Alba
EXPLORE GEOREFERENCED MAPS VIEWER - CHANGING TRANSPARENCY
Extracting and sharing data
from historical maps
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/
11. National Library of Scotland
Leabharlann Nàiseanta na h-Alba
EXPLORE GEOREFERENCED MAPS VIEWER - CHANGING TRANSPARENCY
Extracting and sharing data
from historical maps
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/
12. National Library of Scotland
Leabharlann Nàiseanta na h-Alba
EXPLORE GEOREFERENCED MAPS VIEWER - SIDE-BY-SIDE
Extracting and sharing data
from historical maps
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/
13. National Library of Scotland
Leabharlann Nàiseanta na h-Alba
EXPLORE GEOREFERENCED MAPS VIEWER - SPY VIEWER
Extracting and sharing data
from historical maps
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/spy/
14. National Library of Scotland
Leabharlann Nàiseanta na h-Alba
EXPLORE GEOREFERENCED MAPS VIEWER - 3D
Extracting and sharing data
from historical maps
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/3d/
15. National Library of Scotland
Leabharlann Nàiseanta na h-Alba
NEWS AND RECENT ADDITIONS
https://maps.nls.uk/additions.html https://www.nls.uk/collections/maps/subject-info/cairt
Extracting and sharing data
from historical maps
16. National Library of Scotland
Leabharlann Nàiseanta na h-Alba
● NLS maps website
● Sharing georeferenced maps
● Sharing spatial data
● Data extraction research
Extracting and sharing data
from historical maps
17. National Library of Scotland
Leabharlann Nàiseanta na h-Alba
http://maps.nls.uk/projects/api/
HISTORIC MAPS API
Extracting and sharing data
from historical maps
18. National Library of Scotland
Leabharlann Nàiseanta na h-Alba
https://maps.nls.uk/projects/subscription-api/
HISTORIC MAPS SUBSCRIPTION API
Extracting and sharing data
from historical maps
19. National Library of Scotland
Leabharlann Nàiseanta na h-Alba
https://historicplacenames.rcahmw.gov.uk/
HISTORIC PLACENAMES OF WALES
Extracting and sharing data
from historical maps
20. National Library of Scotland
Leabharlann Nàiseanta na h-Alba
https://canmore.org.uk/site/search/
CANMORE SEARCH INTERFACE
Extracting and sharing data
from historical maps
21. National Library of Scotland
Leabharlann Nàiseanta na h-Alba
VECTORISATION OF MAP CONTENT - OPENSTREETMAP
Extracting and sharing data
from historical maps
22. National Library of Scotland
Leabharlann Nàiseanta na h-Alba
SHARING OF GEOREFERENCED LAYERS - WMTS
Extracting and sharing data
from historical maps
23. National Library of Scotland
Leabharlann Nàiseanta na h-Alba
● NLS maps website
● Sharing georeferenced maps
● Sharing spatial data
● Data extraction research
Extracting and sharing data
from historical maps
24. Purpose:
To create a gazetteer of all the place names
on detailed maps of Great Britain from a
century ago.
Joint Project:
● National Library of Scotland
● National Library of Wales
● University of Portsmouth - Great Britain
Historical GIS Team (Vision of Britain
website)
GB1900 PLACENAME TRANSCRIPTION PROJECT
Extracting and sharing data
from historical maps
25. GB1900 closed for transcriptions in Jan 2018
2.52 million confirmed names - ie. input by
two independent transcribers
Freely downloadable and re-usable from
http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/
GB1900 - COMPLETION - 2018
Extracting and sharing data
from historical maps
26. National Library of Scotland
Leabharlann Nàiseanta na h-Alba
DISTRIBUTIONS OF SELECTED NAME ELEMENTS - QUARRIES AND COLLIERIES
https://geo.nls.uk/maps/gb1900quarry/
Extracting and sharing data
from historical maps
27. National Library of Scotland
Leabharlann Nàiseanta na h-Alba
DISTRIBUTIONS OF SELECTED NAME ELEMENTS - MINE
https://geo.nls.uk/maps/gb1900/https://geo.nls.uk/maps/gb1900/
Extracting and sharing data
from historical maps
28. National Library of Scotland
Leabharlann Nàiseanta na h-Alba
MILLS IN SCOTLAND - “FROM WATER TO STEAM” PHD
https://geo.nls.uk/maps/mills/
Extracting and sharing data
from historical maps
29. National Library of Scotland
Leabharlann Nàiseanta na h-Alba
TRACING FEATURES / VECTORISATION - RAILWAY STATIONS
Extracting and sharing data
from historical maps
30. National Library of Scotland
Leabharlann Nàiseanta na h-Alba
SEARCHING GB1900 GAZETTEER ON NLS WEBSITE
http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/
Extracting and sharing data
from historical maps
31. National Library of Scotland
Leabharlann Nàiseanta na h-Alba
https://geo.nls.uk/maps/footpaths https://dontloseyourway.ramblers.org.uk/find-lost-ways/
LOCATING AND TRACING LOST FOOTPATHS
Extracting and sharing data
from historical maps
32. National Library of Scotland
Leabharlann Nàiseanta na h-Alba
BOUNDARIES VIEWER - PARISH AND COUNTY BOUNDARIES
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/boundaries/
Extracting and sharing data
from historical maps
33. National Library of Scotland
Leabharlann Nàiseanta na h-Alba
BOUNDARIES VIEWER - EDINBURGH BOUNDARIES
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/boundaries/edinburgh/
Extracting and sharing data
from historical maps
34. National Library of Scotland
Leabharlann Nàiseanta na h-Alba
DATA FOUNDRY
https://data.nls.uk/
Extracting and sharing data
from historical maps
35. National Library of Scotland
Leabharlann Nàiseanta na h-Alba
GEOPARSING THE GAZETTEERS OF SCOTLAND
https://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/projects/geoparsing-scottish-gazetteers/
Extracting and sharing data
from historical maps
36. National Library of Scotland
Leabharlann Nàiseanta na h-Alba
● NLS maps website
● Sharing georeferenced maps
● Sharing spatial data
● Data extraction research
Extracting and sharing data
from historical maps
37. National Library of Scotland
Leabharlann Nàiseanta na h-Alba
EDINA / EDINBURGH GEOSCIENCES - CHANGING URBANISATION OVER TIME
℅ James Crone, EDINA
Extracting and sharing data
from historical maps
38. National Library of Scotland
Leabharlann Nàiseanta na h-Alba
EDINA / EDINBURGH GEOSCIENCES - CHANGING URBANISATION OVER TIME
℅ James Crone, EDINA
Extracting and sharing data
from historical maps
39. National Library of Scotland
Leabharlann Nàiseanta na h-Alba
EDINBURGH HOUSE AGE PROJECT - TRACING BUILDING OUTLINES
Registers of Scotland / Historic Environment Scotland / National Library of Scotland
Extracting and sharing data
from historical maps
40. National Library of Scotland
Leabharlann Nàiseanta na h-Alba
EDINBURGH HOUSE AGE PROJECT - FINDING HATCHED BUILDING INFILL
Registers of Scotland / Historic Environment Scotland / National Library of Scotland
Extracting and sharing data
from historical maps
41. National Library of Scotland
Leabharlann Nàiseanta na h-Alba
EDINBURGH HOUSE AGE PROJECT - SEGMENTATION
Registers of Scotland / Historic Environment Scotland / National Library of Scotland
Extracting and sharing data
from historical maps
42. National Library of Scotland
Leabharlann Nàiseanta na h-Alba
EDINBURGH HOUSE AGE PROJECT - JOINING FEATURES ACROSS SHEETS
Registers of Scotland / Historic Environment Scotland / National Library of Scotland
Extracting and sharing data
from historical maps