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Tranquility and Old Maps Available for UK

posted by Satri on Tuesday October 24, @12:07PM        Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the can-we-have-the-same-for-the-entire-world? dept.

GeoPlace links to Life Style Extra article on a noise map of Britain from the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE). Ed Parsons discuss this map of tranquility areas. The Map Room links to a BBC article about it. From Ed Parsons' blog: "Behind the map was a group of researchers from Northumbria and Newcastle Universities who used GIS techniques to weight a 500m pixel grid model of England, giving each pixel a value based on the weighted overlay of data layers representing amongst others; • Land Cover • Proximity of rivers, streams, lakes and the sea; • Presence of birds and other wildlife; • Proximity to transport links • Proximity to urban settlements • Population density • Presence of visually intrustive features such as pylons and wind turbines etc." Meanwhile, the OpenGeoData blog tells us about the complete UK maps from 1950s can now be found free online.

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• 1950s maps not just for browsing

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  by Anonymous Voxel on Friday October 27, @01:21PM (#1053)

  There are two uses for the 1950s maps at http://npemap.org.uk/ [npemap.org.uk]
  
  Firstly, you can use it to browse around, and see how the country was
  
  Secondly, when you're browsing, you can enter the postcode of the place you're looking at. This will allow us to build up a public domain list of postcodes to locations, without having to reference copyright maps.