Maps of the UK and Ireland

Maps of the UK and Ireland are available in various media.

Maps on CD ROM

Fugawi offer a series of 1:25,000, 1:50,000 and 1:250,000 scale UK Ordnance Survey maps including a gazetteer of place names. The areas covered are:

  • Northern Scotland
  • Northern England and Central Scotland
  • Midlands and North Wales
  • Southern England and South Wales

Memory-Map, Anquet and Tracklogs also offer Ordnance Survey maps on CD ROM, including 1:50,000 and 1:25,000 scale maps.

A Microsoft product, Autoroute 2005, includes coverage of Great Britain though new roads such as the M6 Toll which opened in December 2003 are still shown as under construction. Coverage of Ireland and Northern Ireland is less detailed.

Online Maps

A number of websites offer maps of Great Britain and Ireland.

Ordnance Survey

The Ordnance Survey is an agency of the government of the United Kingdom.

link: getamap.ordnancesurvey.co.uk

  • Coverage: Great Britain, the Isle of Man and Northern Ireland
  • Map image size: 400 x 400 pixels
  • Map scale: 6500 m per pixel to 5 m per pixel for Great Britain
  • Map scale: 6500 m per pixel to 10 m per pixel for the Isle of Man
  • Map scale: 6500 m per pixel to 75 m per pixel for Northern Ireland
  • Map date (as at March 2005): 2003 for Great Britain and Isle of Man
  • Map date (as at March 2005): 1997 for Northern Ireland more detailed maps
  • Map date (as at March 2005): 2000 for Northern Ireland less detailed maps
  • Map image license: No commercial, limited personal, no redistribution 1
  • Search by: place name, postcode
  • Wikipedia templates: Gbmapping, Gbmappingsmall, Gbmaprim

Ordnance Survey Northern Ireland is another UK government agency.

link: OSNI Map Console with zoom to house level (requires free registration)

Ordnance Survey Ireland is an agency of the Government of Ireland.

Streetmap

The Streetmap site is compiled and made available by BTex Limited.

  • External link: www.streetmap.co.uk
  • Coverage: Great Britain
  • Map image size: choice of 750 x 750 pixels or 1250 x 1250 pixels
  • Map scale: 333 m per pixel to 2 m per pixel
  • Map date (as at March 2005): varies, approximately 2000
  • Search by: street name, postcode, place name, Ordnance Survey grid reference, Landranger grid reference, latitude and longitude, telephone code
  • Map image license: No reuse

Mapco

Map Ireland

  • External link: www.map-ireland.com
  • Coverage: Ireland (Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland)
  • Map image size: choice of 342 x 292 pixels or 400 x 305 pixels
  • Map scale: 300 m per pixel to 15 m per pixel in rural areas
  • Map scale: 300 m per pixel to 1.5 m per pixel in urban areas
  • Search by: place name

Multimap

  • Wikipedia article: multimap.com
  • External link: www.multimap.com
  • Coverage: British Isles
  • Updated infrequently (new roads constructed 3 years before still not shown)
  • Map image size: choice of 500 x 300 pixels or 700 x 400 pixels
  • Map scale: 14 km per pixel to 21 m per pixel in some areas
  • Map scale: 14 km per pixel to 1.3 m per pixel in some areas
  • Map image license: No reuse
  • Search by: street name, postcode, place name, grid map reference
  • Option in some areas to show an aerial photograph with a semi-transparent map overlay when the mouse is hovered over the area
  • Wikipedia templates: mmukscaled, mmukpc prim, mmukpc

Google Maps

  • Wikipedia article: Google Maps
  • External link: maps.google.co.uk
  • Coverage: British Isles
  • Map image size: Dynamically sized to fit web browser window
  • Map image copyright: Limited private, limited reuse
  • Search by: place name, street name, postcode, yellow pages listings

OpenStreetMap

  • Wikipedia article: OpenStreetMap
  • External link: http://www.openstreetmap.org/
  • Coverage: London, Birmingham, Bedford, Isle of Wight, Weybridge, Chertsey, Shepperton in detail
  • Map image size:
  • Search by: place name
  • A collaborative mapping project
  • Map Image license: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0

Free-map

  • External link: http://free-map.org.uk/
  • Coverage: UK
  • Map image size: 400 by 320 pixels
  • Search by: place name, grid reference, lat/long
  • Map image license 'freely-available data'

NPEMap

Old maps

  • External link: www.old-maps.co.uk
  • Map date: varies, mostly late victorian, around 1890
  • Map image size: preview 600 x 320 pixels, detailed 2666 x 1786 pixels
  • Map scale: about 0.894 m per pixel for the detailed map
  • Search by: place name, numeric grid reference
  • Wikipedia template: GBvosi
  • Map image license: Non commercial and limited private use
  • The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
    • External link: 2
    • Coverage: Ireland and Britain
    • Map date: 1738 - 1929
    • Map scale: High resolution
    • Map image license: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 Generic

Vision of Britain

  • External link: www.visionofbritain.org.uk
  • Coverage: Great Britain
  • Map image size: 450 x 450 pixels
  • Three complete sets of geo-referenced scanned images of Ordnance Survey one inch-to-the-mile maps of Britain: the 19th century First Series, the 1940s New Popular Edition and the inter-war Land Utilisation Survey of Great Britain. The Land Utilisation maps include the unpublished maps of upland Scotland, using the watercolour originals held by the Royal Geographical Society
  • All this material is held in an open access web map server (WMS), following Open Geospatial Consortium standards, and can be used by other web sites as base maps
  • Map image copyright: see discussion page

Scotland in the 1920s

Election Maps

  • External link: www.election-maps.co.uk
  • Coverage: UK
  • Map image size: 580 x 540 pixels
  • Map scale: 10 m per pixel to 50 cm per pixel with switchable smaller scale overview
  • Full colour
  • Search by: Westminster Parliamentary Constituency, Scottish Parliamentary Constituency, Welsh Assembly Constituency, Local Authority, European Region, Scottish Parliament/Welsh Assembly Electoral Region
  • Layers show BOUNDARIES for search items and Parish, Ward, Electoral Division, County and GLA Constituency

Countryside Access Maps

NATURAL England (formerly the Countryside Agency) has a statutory duty to prepare maps of all open country and registered common land in England and the Countryside Council for Wales has the same task in Wales).

  • External links: www.countrysideaccess.gov.uk (England), www.ccw.gov.uk (Wales)
  • Coverage: England and Wales
  • Map edition (at larger scales): Ordnance Survey Landplan (1:10 000)
  • Map image size: 550 x 400 pixels
  • Map scale: up to 1.3 m per pixel
  • Greyscale with access information in colour
  • Search by: Place name, postcode, grid reference

MAGIC

MAGIC is a web-based interactive map intended to bring together information on key environmental schemes and designations in one place. MAGIC partners are DEFRA (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs), The Countryside Agency, English Heritage, English Nature, The Environment Agency, The Forestry Commission and The ODPM (Office of the Deputy Prime Minister).

  • External link: www.magic.gov.uk
  • Coverage: England
  • Map image size: 890 x 500 pixels
  • Map scale: 1.4 km per pixel to 50 cm per pixel or less to resolution of underlying mapping
  • Underlying mapping is shown in greyscale with a watermark at higher resolutions
  • Layers show many datasets from the participating organisations.

New Adlestrop Railway Atlas

  • PDF file
  • External link: http://www.systemed.net/atlas/
  • Work in ProgresS
  • Current coverage: Wales and England south of York / Manchester
  • Shows railway stations and lines whether open, closed or preserved

192.com

  • Wikipedia article: 192.com
  • External link: www.192.com/maps
  • Coverage: UK
  • Map image size: choice of 340 x 340 or 500 x 340
  • Map scale: 12.5cm per pixel
  • Search by: street name, town/city, postcode, business & residential listings

Other

Hipkiss' Scanned Old Maps (http://www.hipkiss.org/data/maps.html)

See also

  • Maps of the United States

See Also

List of maps of the UK and Ireland

Following is a list of maps of the UK and Ireland available from various sources, and in various...