Roman Britain (Historical Map and Guide): 7

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Roman roads remained in use as trunk roads for centuries after the Romans withdrew from Britain in 410 AD. Systematic construction of paved highways did not resume in England until the 18th century.

In addition to contract photography, the collection occasionally holds cover obtained by the national survey departments, and other aid agencies such as the Canadian International Development Agency.A small-scale guide to this photography is included in the DOS Annual Reports from 1951 to 1984, to be held by The National Archives (TNA). Other photography in the collection is shown on non-DOS cover diagrams or sortie plots produced by the originator of the photography. Summary diagrams for each country illustrate the location of all photography. The principal points of photos used in the mapping are shown and numbered on almost all DOS 1:50 000–1:125 000 scale topographic maps and provide accurate indications of the location of individual photos. Air photo mosaics and print laydowns (uncontrolled mosaics produced as map substitutes on standard sheetlines in advance of the regular mapping) are archived at the National Collection of Aerial Photography. There are two sets of air photographs. One is held at the National Collection of Aerial Photography (NCAP) in Scotland, and the second has been entrusted to Oxford University to support global climate change research. This available online and provides an excellent overview as the OS Map has considerable detail on it. It is in our plans to provide a set of mapping data that can be used by us all using Google Maps nd Google Earth so we will keep you posted on that but for the moment here are the top 3 sources we have identified:

The RGS-IBG collection contains all series produced by the Directorate of Colonial Services (DCS) and its subsequent successors between 1946 and 1999. This includes:

Directorate of Overseas Surveys survey data catalogue

HereWeGo is not the best known, but provides both mapping and recent aerial photo coverage. The layers control to access the aerial imagery is in the bottom right corner of the screen Lecture & Seminar Series Great Britain 1:1,000,000 (in the style of the International 1/1M map). Sheet 1 (North), Sheet 2 (South) The International Collection was the result of the work of the Directorate of Colonial Surveys, the Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Ordnance Survey (Overseas Surveys Directorate) and Ordnance Survey International. The history of the International Collection