Historic Roads as GIS vector data
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Historic Roads as GIS vector data
If I want to know where the roads are in the UK, I can go to the OS website and download OS Open Roads.
That's great for 'today'. I'm also aware of the ITN layer which was replaced by the OS Mastermap Highways network. I believe I can get hold of ITN data back to 2007.
Obviously, I know I can look at SABRE maps to see where roads were in the past, but these don't have 'roads as a separate layer' IYSWIM.
Does anyone know if there are any historic road layers for the UK as GIS vectors? I've found one for Roman Roads, but I'm more interested in having something like 1920, 1930, 1940, etc.
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These traces are generally on the road's wiki page, or its history page if it has one.
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They what?! I wasn't aware of that...
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"I won't ever want to use this old data again, therefore no-one else will. Delete (Y/N) = Y. Are you sure (Y/N) = Y."
As for the 'lack' of responses on my OP by the way, I guess that means I wasn't being dumb and such information doesn't exist. Not quite the answer I was wanting, but if no sabristi know of such a resource, I can be pretty damn certain that it doesn't exist.
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Unfortunately it also only goes back to 2007 with roads as GIS vector data.
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Well, there are a few use cases, such as on SABRE, for example, when illustrating the route of the A42 (Reading - Birmingham) on modern mapping. The 1923 Route Traces page is a good place to see possibilities.Kaasdrager wrote: ↑Fri Oct 18, 2019 17:57 I struggle to see a use for historic roads in vector format.
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From the SABRE Wiki: A42 (Reading - Birmingham) :
The original A42 was the main road from Reading to Birmingham via Oxford. Like the other original two-digit roads, it was classified in 1921.
During 1934, the Ministry of Transport, in an attempt to rationalise some of the main routes, proposed to extend the A42 north to the A6 at Salford, and extend the A423 at both ends to run from Maidenhead