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Ordinance Survey Historical Maps go live.

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  • 09-06-2006 4:42pm
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    mike65
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    Just aheads up from those who are interested in Cartography, the OS has its earliest maps live to view and download as pdf files, you have to buy time but if you always wondered about the land you lived on/owned it could be worth 15 euro for 3 days browsing. IE5.5 and upwards only unfortunately my copy of IE 6 wont display the pages (e-mail sent to OS tech desk :( )

    http://www.osi.ie/

    Mike.


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    Sheera
    Registered Users Posts: 64 ✭✭Sheera


    This is also available free in public libraries for library members :)


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    SpitfireIV
    Registered Users Posts: 4,504 ✭✭✭SpitfireIV


    Been using that site a few days now and got a good insight into Carlow town and certain areas I am researching, grand and handy, the only thing I would fault it on is the fact that once you zoom in close the image isnt as sharp or as crisp as the examples they give on the intro page :( and €24 to download an A4 sized section :confused: :rolleyes:

    But other than that its ok, be interested to see the early 20th century maps once they get them up and running

    http://www.irishhistoricmaps.ie/historic/

    CroppyBoy1798


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    von Bismarck
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    did u know that Napoleon was the greatest map reader of all time? he could tell u, to the hour almost, how long it would take to cross a particular terrain!


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    Mick86
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    von Bismarck wrote:
    did u know that Napoleon was the greatest map reader of all time? he could tell u, to the hour almost, how long it would take to cross a particular terrain!


    Naismith's Rule. Obviously it ddn't work in Russia.:D


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