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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 relevance to this wiki

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

Full listing of GIS wiki maps

See Maps: Occupational

- England, 1640-1699 + specified occupational description
- Specified county, 1640-1699 + specified occupational description

See Maps: Woodhead (1666)

- London Common councilmen and aldermen, J.R. Woodhead (1966)
- Specified county + geographical origins

See Maps: Clark & Hoskings

- Clark & Hoskings (1993)

Geographical location

MAP 4: Geographic location of investors in 1650s & 60s

MAP_North_Weald_Kent_C17th_Houses

Occupation

Barges_PRC_Wills_1640-99

Wag(g)oner_Lorry_Man_Inventories_1640-99

For the full range of occupational maps available see Maps: Occupational

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

Ordinance Survey

Ordinance Survey Open Data initiative

OS OpenData

Ordinance Survey Open Space initiative

OS OpenSpace

- 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

Wikimedia Commons Mapping

County location maps

User:Nilfanion/Maps/Location maps

Wikipedia Media Commons: Hundreds by county

Essex

See Essex hundreds, 1830

Kent

To be added

Middlesex

To be added

Surrey

To be added

Roehampton: County hearth tax maps

Kent

- Kent Hearth Tax Assessment Lady Day 1664: CKS: Q/RTh Transcribed and computerised by Duncan Harrington

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