Comments on: Historical GIS in Great Britain http://veryspatial.com/2007/10/historical-gis-in-great-britain/ Discussions on Geography and geospatial technologies Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:02:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Humphrey Southall http://veryspatial.com/2007/10/historical-gis-in-great-britain/comment-page-1/#comment-356251 Humphrey Southall Thu, 06 Dec 2007 01:31:21 +0000 http://veryspatial.com/?p=1795#comment-356251 There is some confusion here. I have been director of the GB Historical GIS project from its inception in 1994 to the present, although many people have worked on it with me; Ian Gregory left the project in 2000. The web site "A Vision of Britain through Time" sits on top of our full system and gives access to pretty much the entire contents, apart from part of our statistical holdings. However, it was funded by the UK National Lottery as a resource for local historians and is, emphatically, not a download site. That said, pretty much all the boundaries we have computerised are downloadable from the UKBORDERS service operated by Edinburgh University, and most of the statistics can be obtained from the UK Data Archive at Essex University. Our scanned maps ARE available via an OGC-compliant web map server, and we are developing additional web services interfaces. What is the source of your information? There is some confusion here. I have been director of the GB Historical GIS project from its inception in 1994 to the present, although many people have worked on it with me; Ian Gregory left the project in 2000. The web site “A Vision of Britain through Time” sits on top of our full system and gives access to pretty much the entire contents, apart from part of our statistical holdings. However, it was funded by the UK National Lottery as a resource for local historians and is, emphatically, not a download site. That said, pretty much all the boundaries we have computerised are downloadable from the UKBORDERS service operated by Edinburgh University, and most of the statistics can be obtained from the UK Data Archive at Essex University. Our scanned maps ARE available via an OGC-compliant web map server, and we are developing additional web services interfaces.

What is the source of your information?

]]> By: Archaeogeek http://veryspatial.com/2007/10/historical-gis-in-great-britain/comment-page-1/#comment-339749 Archaeogeek Thu, 11 Oct 2007 08:43:55 +0000 http://veryspatial.com/?p=1795#comment-339749 It would be interesting to know why most of GBHGIS is not publically available... as an archaeologist it would be incredibly useful to access this information through different interfaces other than the Vision of Britain website. Making it accessible through web services and similar would be so useful to so many people. It would be interesting to know why most of GBHGIS is not publically available… as an archaeologist it would be incredibly useful to access this information through different interfaces other than the Vision of Britain website. Making it accessible through web services and similar would be so useful to so many people.

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