Published Mon June 20 2011
By Anna Vernon in Renewals

The new agreement for Historic Digimap is now live and available for subscription. Historic Digimap provides access to the valuable historic Ordnance Survey map collection online. Users can view maps through their web browser, save maps for printing and download the historic map data for use in geographical information systems.

The content has been purchased in perpetuity, but a fee applies for access via the Digimap platform.We are pleased to confirm lower pricing for Further Education and Sixth Form colleges. As we are moving toward a unified licence across the Digimap suite this agreement is for one year only.

Further information

The maps are digital scans of Ordnance Survey paper map sheets including:

• all available County Series maps at 1:2,500 and 1:10560 scales published between 1843 and 1939
• all available National Grid maps at 1:1,250, 1:2,500 and 1:10560/10,000 scales published from 1945 and before the introduction of the Ordnance Survey's digital Land-Line product in the 1990s
• all available Town Plans at 1:500, 1:528 and 1:1,056 scales published from 1848 and 1939;

Historic Digimap is part of the Digimap suite of on-line mapping facilities. As such, its look and feel will be familiar to existing Digimap users but intuitive to all, regardless of their level of experience with maps.