Template talk:GBvoss

TEMPLATE NOW REDIRECTED TO {{GBvosi}} DUE TO CHANGES IN OLD-MAPS.CO.UK SITE BREAKING LINKS

Note. This template is obsolescent. {{GBvosi}} creates much better links to the same site. GBvosi generally does not require County codes but if they are needed, they are different from those used by this template.

Creates a link to the excellent maps at old-maps.co.uk.

The template name means:

GB: Great Britain - not UK - there is a separate OS for Northern Ireland
v: Victorian
os: Ordnance Survey
s: simple - bare-bones link - this template could be nested within others

Parameters

e, n - Eastings and Northings for the centre of the map - in metres. Leading zeroes optional. All digits are significant - a one metre change generates a different map.
cty - County Number from list below
txt - link text - may be left null or blank

The generated maps are large, with a seemingly arbitrary size of 2666 x 1786 pixels. (I have not found out yet how to generate maps that are smaller or on a smaller scale.)

This link www.old-maps.co.uk does what you need. See Template:Infobox England place and it's talk page for a way of using it in a template. 80N 23:09, Apr 16, 2005 (UTC)

To save the user having to scroll the map, you may care to offset the centre so that the point of interest is nearer the top left of the map - try e+750,n-450 .

How to create

Cruise round old-maps.co.uk to find the map you want. Some places are listed under more than one county - with different maps
When you have found the map you want, the main page map (not the enlarged view) shows the required parameters above the map.

If your browser's status line is on, it will also show the co-ordinates as you move the mouse over the map.

The date can be included in the link or article text - but see note below regarding the reliability of the dates.

County Numbers

 1 BEDFORDSHIRE                              54 ABERDEENSHIRE
 2 BERKSHIRE                                 55 ARGYLLSHIRE AND BUTE
 3 BUCKINGHAMSHIRE                           56 AYRSHIRE
 4 CAMBRIDGESHIRE & ISLE OF ELY              57 BANFFSHIRE
 5 CHESHIRE                                  58 BERWICKSHIRE
 6 CORNWALL & ISLES OF SCILLY                59  not used
 7 CUMBERLAND                                60 CAITHNESS-SHIRE
 8 DERBYSHIRE                                61  not used
 9 DEVON                                     62 DUMBARTONSHIRE
10 DORSET                                    63 DUMFRIESSHIRE
11 DURHAM                                    64 EDINBURGHSHIRE
12 ESSEX                                     65 ELGINSHIRE
13 GLOUCESTERSHIRE                           66 FIFESHIRE
14 HAMPSHIRE & ISLE OF WIGHT                 67 FORFARSHIRE
15 HEREFORDSHIRE                             68 HADDINGTONSHIRE
16 HERTFORDSHIRE                             69 INVERNESSSHIRE & SKYE
17 HUNTINGDONSHIRE                           70 KINCARDINESHIRE
18 KENT                                      71  not used
19 LANCASHIRE AND FURNESS                    72 KIRKCUDBRIGHTSHIRE
20 LEICESTERSHIRE                            73 LANARKSHIRE
21 LINCOLNSHIRE                              74 LINLITHGOWSHIRE
22  not used                                 75 NAIRNSHIRE
23 MIDDLESEX                                 76 ORKNEY
24 NORFOLK                                   77 PEEBLESHIRE
25 NORTHAMPTONSHIRE                          78 PERTHSHIRE & KINROSS
26 NORTHUMBERLAND                            79 RENFREWSHIRE
27 NOTTINGHAMSHIRE                           80 ROSS & CROMARTY
28 OXFORDSHIRE                               81 ROXBURGHSHIRE
29 RUTLAND                                   82 SELKIRKSHIRE
30 SHROPSHIRE                                83 STIRLINGSHIRE
31 SOMERSET                                  84 SUTHERLAND
32 STAFFORDSHIRE                             85 WIGTOWNSHIRE
33 SUFFOLK                                   86 ZETLAND (SHETLAND)
34 SURREY                                    87 OUTER HEBRIDES
35 SUSSEX                                    88 ISLE OF LEWIS
36 WARWICKSHIRE
37 WESTMORLAND
38 WILTSHIRE
39 WORCESTERSHIRE
40 YORKSHIRE


41 ANGLESEY
42 BRECKNOCKSHIRE
43 CAERNARVONSHIRE
44 CARDIGANSHIRE
45 CARMARTHENSHIRE
46 DENBIGHSHIRE
47 FLINTSHIRE
48 GLAMORGANSHIRE
49 MERIONETHSHIRE
50 MONMOUTHSHIRE
51 MONTGOMERYSHIRE
52 PEMBROKESHIRE
53 RADNORSHIRE

Dates

It looks, and is, more professional to quote a date rather than saying something like this Victorian OS map. However dates should be marked as only approximate for several reasons:

On the website, old-maps have created an audit trail back to the dates of the individual paper sheets they have used (each county needed a few dozen sheets). As you pan across the map display, you may see the date change, usually from one year to a range then back to one year. Where a range is shown, this means that the map on display is derived from two or more of the underlying sheets - the "stitch lines" between them are usually obvious at the largest scale. By judicious panning, keeping the point of interest in view, it is possible to get a single date shown which is the one to quote.

Even then the date is only the publication date as printed on the map, not the date of the survey. Before 1866, railways were sometimes added without changing the publication date. Conversely, the map may have been updated with important changes, such as railways, but other new developments are not shown.

See the old-maps help page for more details.