Also how am I only now finding out that a selection of the NLS's brilliant historic map archive is available as a tileset for your favourite GIS applications?? Includes 19th century 1" and 6" OS maps for Scotland and Roy Military Survey Gazetteer from the 1740s!

https://maps.nls.uk/guides/datasets/qgis/#nlsbackground

#GIS #NLS #HistoricMapping

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