Tag: Georeferencing

Full Steam Ahead! January 2017 Newsletter

Happy New Year! We are pleased to update you on the latest news in the Know Your Place project and how we’re going full steam ahead with our plans in the coming months.   Full Steam Ahead! We are delighted to introduce you to our newest team member, Alice, who has joined us for the exciting […]

Volunteers Newsletter – December 2016

Dear volunteers, Welcome to your latest newsletter, updating on all volunteer work and news from the Know Your Place – West of England project. This Month’s Progress During November, you sent back 109 cropped maps and 76 georeferenced maps. Roughly double the previous month, which is excellent. Was this due to the increasingly bad weather […]

Volunteers Newsletter – October 2016

Dear volunteers, Welcome to your latest newsletter, updating on all volunteer work and news from the Know Your Place – West of England project. This Month’s Progress During September you’ve sent back 40 cropped maps and 71 georeferenced maps – making a good dent in our work remaining to be done. We are now close […]

Volunteers Newsletter – September 2016

Dear volunteers, Welcome to your latest newsletter, updating on all volunteer news and developments from the Know Your Place – West of England project. From now on we’ll be sharing news with you every month, so do look out for this. Excellent progress! We have more than 50 volunteers involved with the project at the moment, […]

Volunteers’ Newsletter Early Summer 2016

Wiltshire nearly completed; more training in Gloucestershire; hold tight Somerset

Volunteers’ Newsletter Spring 2016

This is the first of our newsletter updates to KYP volunteers.

New Tools from Old Maps: digitising Ordnance Survey mapping

by Dr. Philip Hatfield, Lead Curator, Digital Maps, British Library The British Library (http://www.bl.uk) is in a process of change. After centuries of collecting material in printed form the Library now looks to acquire and store for the long term increasing amounts of content in digital formats. Why is this? Well, for maps most content […]