Maps of the UK and Ireland

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Maps of the UK and Ireland are available in various media.

Maps on CD ROM

ISYS OUTDOORS, Anquet Maps and Fugawi offer a series of 1:25,000, 1:50,000 and 1:250,000 scale UK Ordnance Survey maps including a
gazetteer of place names. The areas covered are:
* Scotland
* England
* Wales
* Isle of Man

ISYS OUTDOORS, Memory-Map, Anquet and Tracklogs also offer Ordnance Survey maps on CD ROM, including 1:50,000 and 1:25,000 scale maps.

A Microsoft product, "Autoroute 2005", includes coverage of Great Britain though new roads such as the M6 Toll which opened in December 2003 are still shown as under construction. Coverage of Ireland and Northern Ireland is less detailed.

Downloadable Maps

Due to cartographers restrictions/copyrights there are only a few companies that have the platform and technology that can securely distribute original maps in digital format via download. However those that do, like Anquet, often provide free software that manages the maps but also helps route planning, map printing and programming of GPS/PND devices with those routes and maps you downloaded.

*External link: [http://www.anquet.co.uk Anquet Maps]

Online Maps

A number of websites offer maps of Great Britain and Ireland.

Current mapping

Ordnance Survey

The Ordnance Survey is an agency of the government of the United Kingdom.

link: [http://getamap.ordnancesurvey.co.uk getamap.ordnancesurvey.co.uk]
*Coverage: Great Britain, the Isle of Man and Northern Ireland
*Map image size: 400 x 400 pixels
*Map scale: 6500 m per pixel to 5 m per pixel for Great Britain
*Map scale: 6500 m per pixel to 10 m per pixel for the Isle of Man
*Map scale: 6500 m per pixel to 75 m per pixel for Northern Ireland
*Map date (as at March 2005): 2003 for Great Britain and Isle of Man
*Map date (as at March 2005): 1997 for Northern Ireland more detailed maps
*Map date (as at March 2005): 2000 for Northern Ireland less detailed maps
*Map image license: [http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/site/legal/ No commercial, limited personal, no redistribution] [http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/]
*Search by: place name, postcode
*Wikipedia templates: , ,

Ordnance Survey Northern Ireland is another UK government agency.

link: [http://maps.osni.gov.uk/MapConsoleProducts.aspx OSNI Map Console] with zoom to house level (requires free registration)

Ordnance Survey Ireland is an agency of the Government of Ireland.

treetmap

The Streetmap site is compiled and made available by BTex Limited.

*External link: [http://www.streetmap.co.uk www.streetmap.co.uk]
*Coverage: Great Britain
*Map image size: choice of 750 x 750 pixels or 1250 x 1250 pixels
*Map scale: 333 m per pixel to 2 m per pixel
*Map date (as at March 2005): varies, approximately 2000
*Search by: street name, postcode, place name, Ordnance Survey grid reference, Landranger grid reference, latitude and longitude, telephone code
*Map image license: No reuse

MAPCO

*External link: [http://archivemaps.com/mapco/index.htm http://archivemaps.com/mapco/index.htm]
*External link: [http://archivemaps.com http://archivemaps.com]
*Number of maps displayed (as at August 2007): 57
*Map dates (as at August 2007):
** [http://archivemaps.com/mapco/london.htm London c1560-1925]
** [http://archivemaps.com/mapco/britisle.htm British Isles 1800-1883]
*Map

*Map image license: Free for personal use and non-commercial (not for profit) organizations.

Map Ireland

*External link: [http://www.map-ireland.com/route/map.asp?A=init www.map-ireland.com]
*Coverage: Ireland (Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland)
*Map image size: choice of 342 x 292 pixels or 400 x 305 pixels
*Map scale: 300 m per pixel to 15 m per pixel in rural areas
*Map scale: 300 m per pixel to 1.5 m per pixel in urban areas
*Search by: place name

Multimap

*Wikipedia article: multimap.com
*External link: [http://www.multimap.com www.multimap.com]
*Coverage: British Isles
*Updated infrequently (new roads constructed 3 years before still not shown)
*Map image size: choice of 500 x 300 pixels or 700 x 400 pixels
*Map scale: 14 km per pixel to 21 m per pixel in some areas
*Map scale: 14 km per pixel to 1.3 m per pixel in some areas
*Map image license: [http://www.multimap.com/static/condit_new.htm No reuse]
*Search by: street name, postcode, place name, grid map reference
*Option in some areas to show an aerial photograph with a semi-transparent map overlay when the mouse is hovered over the area
*Wikipedia templates: ,

Google Maps

*Wikipedia article: Google Maps
*External link: [http://maps.google.co.uk maps.google.co.uk]
*Coverage: British Isles
*Map image size: Dynamically sized to fit web browser window
*Map image copyright: [http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/help/legalnotices_maps.html Limited private, limited reuse]
*Search by: place name, street name, postcode, yellow pages listings

OpenStreetMap

*Wikipedia article: OpenStreetMap
*External link: http://www.openstreetmap.org/
*Coverage: London, Birmingham, Bedford, Isle of Wight, Weybridge, Chertsey, Shepperton in detail
*Map image size:
*Search by: place name
*A collaborative mapping project
*Map Image license: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0

Free-map

*External link: http://free-map.org.uk/
*Coverage: UK
*Map image size: 400 by 320 pixels
*Search by: place name, grid reference, lat/long
*Map image license 'freely-available data'

Election Maps

*External link: [http://www.election-maps.co.uk www.election-maps.co.uk]
*Coverage: UK
*Map image size: 580 x 540 pixels
*Map scale: 10 m per pixel to 50 cm per pixel with switchable smaller scale overview
*Full colour
*Search by: Westminster Parliamentary Constituency, Scottish Parliamentary Constituency, Welsh Assembly Constituency, Local Authority, European Region, Scottish Parliament/Welsh Assembly Electoral Region
*Layers show boundaries for search items and Parish, Ward, Electoral Division, County and GLA Constituency

Countryside Access Maps

Natural England (formerly the Countryside Agency) has a statutory duty to prepare maps of all open country and registered common land in England and the Countryside Council for Wales has the same task in Wales).

*External links: [http://www.countrysideaccess.gov.uk/things_to_do/open_access www.countrysideaccess.gov.uk] (England), [http://www.ccw.gov.uk/interactive-maps.aspx www.ccw.gov.uk] (Wales)
*Coverage: England and Wales
*Map edition (at larger scales): Ordnance Survey Landplan (1:10 000)
*Map image size: 550 x 400 pixels
*Map scale: up to 1.3 m per pixel
*Greyscale with access information in colour
*Search by: Place name, postcode, grid reference

MAGIC

MAGIC is a web-based interactive map intended to bring together information on key environmental schemes and designations in one place. MAGIC partners are DEFRA (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs), The Countryside Agency, English Heritage, English Nature, The Environment Agency, The Forestry Commission and The ODPM (Office of the Deputy Prime Minister).

*External link: [http://www.magic.gov.uk www.magic.gov.uk]
*Coverage: England
*Map image size: 890 x 500 pixels
*Map scale: 1.4 km per pixel to 50 cm per pixel or less to resolution of underlying mapping
*Underlying mapping is shown in greyscale with a watermark at higher resolutions
*Layers show many datasets from the participating organisations.

192.com

*Wikipedia article: 192.com
*External link: [http://www.192.com/maps www.192.com/maps]
*Coverage: UK
*Map image size: choice of 340 x 340 or 500 x 340
*Map scale: 12.5cm per pixel, UK wide & 4cm per pixel for central London
*Search by: street name, town/city, postcode, business & residential listings

Other

* http://www.pickatrail.com/jupiter/location/europe/england/england.html - Map of England and Wales: Counties and Unitary Authorities

Historic mapping

Popular Edition Maps (England and Wales)

This site has scanned images of the Ordnance Survey One Inch Popular (4th) Edition maps. These inter-war maps are similar in style to the later New Popular Edition but pre-date the GB National Grid.
*External link: http://www.ponies.me.uk/maps/osmap.html
*Coverage: England and Wales (75%/slowly increasing)
*Map date: varies, but most are 1920s or 1930s
*Map scale: 1 inch to the mile (1:63,360)
*Map image licence: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales]
*Search by: none

NPEMap

This site has scanned images of the Ordnance Survey One Inch New Popular (6th) Edition maps. These post-war maps include the modern GB National Grid.
*External link: http://npemap.org.uk/
*Coverage: UK
*Map date: varies, but most are 1940s or early 1950s
*Map image size: 125x125 pixels/grid square
*Map scale: 1 inch to the mile (1:63,360)
*Map image license: [http://www.npemap.org.uk/tileLicence.html Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial Licence 2.5]
*Search by: place name, postcode

Old maps

*External link: [http://www.old-maps.co.uk www.old-maps.co.uk]
*Map date: varies, mostly late victorian, around 1890
*Map image size: preview 600 x 320 pixels, detailed 2666 x 1786 pixels
*Map scale: about 0.894 m per pixel for the detailed map
*Search by: place name, numeric grid reference
*Wikipedia template:
*Map image license: [http://www.old-maps.co.uk/terms.htm Non commercial and limited private use]

The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection

**External link: [http://www.davidrumsey.com/directory/where/Ireland/?page=1]
**Coverage: Ireland and Britain
**Map date: 1738 - 1929
**Map scale: High resolution
**Map image license: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 Generic

Vision of Britain

*External link: [http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/maps/map_lib_page.jsp?main=true www.visionofbritain.org.uk]
*Coverage: Great Britain
*Map image size: 450 x 450 pixels
*Three complete sets of geo-referenced scanned images of Ordnance Survey one inch-to-the-mile maps of Britain: the 19th century First Series, the 1940s New Popular Edition and the inter-war Land Utilisation Survey of Britain, overprinted on Ordnance Survey Popular Edition (4th Ed) sheets. The Land Utilisation maps include the unpublished maps of upland Scotland, using the watercolour originals held by the Royal Geographical Society
*All this material is held in an open access web map server (WMS), following Open Geospatial Consortium standards, and can be used by other web sites as base maps
*Map image copyright: see discussion page

cotland in the 1920s

*External link: [http://www.nls.uk/digitallibrary/map/early/os_scotland_popular_list.html www.nls.uk/digitallibrary/map/early/os_scotland_popular_list.html]
*Coverage: Scotland
*Map Dates: 1921 to 1928
*Map Edition: Ordnance Survey One-inch "Popular"
*Map image size: 700 x 500 pixels
*Map scale: 20 m per pixel to 1.5 m per pixel or less to resolution of mapping

New Adlestrop Railway Atlas

*PDF file
*External link: [http://www.systemed.net/atlas/ http://www.systemed.net/atlas/]
*Work in progress
*Current coverage: Wales and England south of York / Manchester
*Shows railway stations and lines whether open, closed or preserved

Other

* http://homepage.tinet.ie/~cronews/geog/census/codense.html - Population density by county in Ireland, in 1841, 1901, and 2002.

* Hipkiss' Scanned Old Maps (http://www.hipkiss.org/data/maps.html)

* http://www.hipkiss.org/cgi-bin/maps.pl?cat=scotland - Maps of Scotland
* http://www.hipkiss.org/cgi-bin/maps.pl?cat=ireland - Maps of Ireland
* http://www.hipkiss.org/cgi-bin/maps.pl?cat=england - Maps of England
* http://www.hipkiss.org/cgi-bin/maps.pl?cat=wales - Maps of Wales

ee also

*Maps of the United States