‘1930s Land Utilisation mapping: an improved evidence-base for policy?'. Further research into methods for vectorising Land Utilization survey data.

Research into techniques of vectorising data from the Land Utilisation Maps of the 1930s. Data conversion was done in a targeted locality as a case study which included investigating the options for 'cleaning' the pre-existing scanned and geo-referenced images, for interpreting the inconsistent colour tones on the various printed Dudley Stamp maps and for interpreting the colour codes on the original maps. Where appropriate these were then linked to other identified contemporaneous agricultural statistics and land-use data to add value in the interpretation of the land classification described by the maps.

This work was funded by the Environment Agency.