Marr Map of Manchester
Classification, GIS | (1)
Anybody who I have come in contact with over the past two weeks has probably been subjected to me showing them an old 1904 map of Manchester and Salford housing conditions. This has really nice cartography and is accompanied by a book featuring rich text and pictorial descriptions of the people and living conditions.
As an experiment in getting old maps onto the web, my researcher Ollie and I have been playing with a couple of tools, the output of which we present in our beta site:
http://www.publicprofiler.org/manchester/
Although not available at all zooms, we have also added an OAC layer -
there is ...