The National Library of Scotland (NLS; nls.uk) has created the most ambitious online repository of digital maps within the UK. This brilliant resource, maps. nls.uk , offers more than 200,000 high-resolution maps, covering not only Scotland but also the rest of Britain, Ireland, Belgium, Jamaica, and the wider world. Among the collections are early maps dating back to the Scottish Reformation, Ordnance Survey (OS) maps, military maps, coastal maps, bathymetrical surveys, soil maps and estate maps.
‘Maps provide a sense of place for our ancestral homes at any one time’ Maps can help family historians in many diverse ways. At their most basic they can provide a sense of place for our ancestral homes at any one time. They can depict whether an environment was urban or rural, easily accessible,…
