TY - UNPB
T1 - Digitising the Inter-War Land Use Survey of Great Britain: scanning and geo-referencing project
AU - Southall, Humphrey
AU - Burton, N.
AU - Westwood, John
N1 - Funders:
Environment Agency.
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
Additional Information:
This project was almost entirely concerned with locating copies of the maps, then scanning and geo-referencing them, so much of the report provides background information which originally appeared in the Pilot Project report in 2003..
Institution:
University of Portsmouth.
Department:
Geography.
PY - 2004/7
Y1 - 2004/7
N2 - During the 1930s, the Land-Utilisation Survey (LUS) of Great Britain, directed by Professor L. Dudley Stamp, created a detailed record of the major land uses in England, Wales and southern Scotland. They published this information on a set of 169 map sheets, 135 of which cover England and Wales, using Ordnance Survey 1” maps as a base, and displaying land uses via a colour overlay. This report describes a project to source, scan, geo-reference and disseminate a full set of the (170) published LUS maps of Great Britain. Scanning and geo-referencing of the maps has been successful, despite the lack of a printed grid and coordinate system on the maps. The lack of printed coordinates has been overcome by using an existing, out of copyright, geo-referenced series of scanned maps to geo-reference LUS maps. The original scanned material and geo-referenced scans have been written to DVD and deposited with both the Environment Agency and DEFRA. The maps have also been made freely available to anyone via a Web Map Server at http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk.
AB - During the 1930s, the Land-Utilisation Survey (LUS) of Great Britain, directed by Professor L. Dudley Stamp, created a detailed record of the major land uses in England, Wales and southern Scotland. They published this information on a set of 169 map sheets, 135 of which cover England and Wales, using Ordnance Survey 1” maps as a base, and displaying land uses via a colour overlay. This report describes a project to source, scan, geo-reference and disseminate a full set of the (170) published LUS maps of Great Britain. Scanning and geo-referencing of the maps has been successful, despite the lack of a printed grid and coordinate system on the maps. The lack of printed coordinates has been overcome by using an existing, out of copyright, geo-referenced series of scanned maps to geo-reference LUS maps. The original scanned material and geo-referenced scans have been written to DVD and deposited with both the Environment Agency and DEFRA. The maps have also been made freely available to anyone via a Web Map Server at http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk.
M3 - Working paper
BT - Digitising the Inter-War Land Use Survey of Great Britain: scanning and geo-referencing project
PB - University of Portsmouth
CY - Portsmouth
ER -
