Category:Road Mapping
---Note: very much a work in progess---
A history of road mapping
From strip maps of coaching routes to Sat Nav and Internet mapping, this is a history of how road maps have developed.
Ogilby's strip maps
The first road maps to have been created in Britain are generally accepted to be those drawn by John Ogilby in the 1670s. They are certainly the first road maps to cover large areas of England and Wales.
The work of collating the data was started in 1669, and published in 1675 as Britannia, Volume the first. This was before the network of turnpike roads had really been started, and so depicts the post routes, and other important roads as they were in the second half of the seventeenth century.
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Brands of mapping
A look at the different brands of mapping available, their distinctive features and cartographical style.
- AA Mapping - Route level mapping
- A-Z Mapping - Street level mapping
- Bartholomew's Mapping - Half Inch / 1:100,000 range of maps.
- Collins Mapping - Route level mapping
- Google Mapping - Digital based mapping with enhanced features
- OS Mapping - National Mapping Agency - Various scales from street level to national route level
- OSNI Mapping - National Mapping Agency - Various scales from street level to national route level
- OSI Mapping - National Mapping Agency - Various scales from street level to national route level
- Michelin Mapping - Route level mapping
- Philips Street Atlases - Street level mapping
- Teleatlas Mapping - Digital based mapping used for mobile and internet based mapping
- Navteq Mapping - Digital based mapping used for mobile and internet based mapping
- Book of the Road Mapping - Route level mapping
(need to add more brands)
Digital mapping
The internet has opened up the availability of mapping, with endless scrolling maps, old scanned maps and data overlays, the following comprise of several sites that give digital access to various different maps
- SABRE Maps - Lots of old maps from the 1920s to 1960.
- New Popular Edition Maps - A collection of scanned maps from the 1940/1950's (also on SABRE Maps)
- OS Openspace Mapping - Scrollable OS maps of the entire country (maps from circa 2007)
- OS Get-a-map - Less user friendly OS mapping (up to date mapping)
- British Geological Survey - Borehole mapping - useful for checking dates of road construction and unbuilt roads (turn borehole records on)
Atlas dating project
To help date road maps and atlases, we are working on a list of changes to the road network that would help date them.
This is split by decade: 1920s | 1930s | 1940s | 1950s | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s
Pages in category 'Road Mapping'
The following 60 pages are in this category, out of 60 total.
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- Network changes - 18th century
- Network changes - 1900s
- Network changes - 1910s
- Network changes - 1920s
- Network changes - 1930s
- Network changes - 1940s
- Network changes - 1950s
- Network changes - 1960s
- Network changes - 1970s
- Network changes - 1980s
- Network changes - 1990s
- Network changes - 19th century
- Network changes - 2000s
- Network changes - 2010s
- Network changes - 2020s
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- Ordnance Survey Route Planning Map
- OS Explorer
- OS Explorer/original sheets
- OS Explorer/Sheets 101-299
- OS Explorer/Sheets 300-470
- OS Half Inch
- OS Landranger
- OS Landranger/Sheets
- OS London Passenger Transport Map
- OS Map Symbols
- OS Map Symbols/Road Structures
- OS Map Symbols/Roads
- OS Mapping
- OS Mapping/OS Book 1949
- OS Miniscale
- OS Ministry of Transport Road Map
- OS Ministry of Transport Road Map/Sheets
- OS One Inch
- OS One Inch/Sheets
- OS Outdoor Leisure
- OS Pathfinder
- OS Popular Edition
- OS Popular Edition/Sheets
- OS Quarter Inch
- OS Road Map
- OS Routemaster
- OS Ten Mile Map
- OS Tourist
- OSi Discovery
- OSI Half Inch
- OSI Mapping
- OSNI Discoverer
- OSNI Mapping
- OSNI One Inch
- OSNI Road Map
- Other Mapping