Using Maps for tour guiding and local history
Documents and videos for researching, planning and documenting walks and local history.
Created by David Brown except where stated.
Historical London Maps
Online historical map websites
Historical maps in libraries
Using the oldmapsonline site (Adrian)
List of maps covering Westminster
Notes and links from Adrian's talk on historic maps (Adrian)
Digital Maps
Mapping Tools
A list of web tools and downloadable applications for working with digital maps
uMap
A video on using the uMap web-based editor for OpenStreetMap
QGIS
QGIS is a fully-featured tool to work with digital maps and map images. Nearly anything that you can do
with maps on a computer can be done with QGIS.
Learning to use QGIS
Links to external web pages on using QGIS
QGIS Videos
Short videos showing how to do tasks for our typical mapping needs
1. Create a new project
2. Add stops for a walk
3. Add route for a walk
4. Adding plugins
5. Adding buildings and roads from OSM
6. Adding the Westminster Boundary
7. Georeferencing
8. Adding CSV files
Mark's Links
Mark's Links
Mark Finkletaub has saved nearly a hundred bookmarks on map sites of all kinds, new and old
Map discussion mailing list
We set up an email mailing list for attendees of the last talk and others. It's very dormant but we will use it to
announce any new documents or other things of possible interest to us. There is another list for those interested
in QGIS and other technical map things. Please use the contact details below if you want to join the map list or the
tech map list. (They are hardly used and you will not get deluged or spammed!)
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