Ordnance Survey, One-inch to the mile maps of England and Wales, New Popular Edition,
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stagecoach
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This site is easy to copy for the 1km basemaps. Just click the center square and save. It fits straight onto the basemap as saved, no cutting.
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=292500&y=92500&z=120&sv=exeter&st=3&tl=Map+of+Exeter,+Devon+[City/Town/Village]&searchp=ids.srf&mapp=map.srf
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=292500&y=92500&z=120&sv=exeter&st=3&tl=Map+of+Exeter,+Devon+[City/Town/Village]&searchp=ids.srf&mapp=map.srf
Hi Guys,
Please could you tell me how to paste it to the baseboard. I'm sure that I'm missing something obvious but help would be appreciated.
Ta
Paul
http://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/maps/
This site also has old OS maps in a slightly more user friendly scrollable format.
The best quality ones are under NLS Maps/Old Ordnance Survey.
Unfortunately I can't see any way of easily copying the images other than screendumping and stitching together clips in a paint package. I'll have to check with Roland on his Transdem forum but I can't see there's any Web Mapping feature associated with the site either.
This site also has old OS maps in a slightly more user friendly scrollable format.
The best quality ones are under NLS Maps/Old Ordnance Survey.
Unfortunately I can't see any way of easily copying the images other than screendumping and stitching together clips in a paint package. I'll have to check with Roland on his Transdem forum but I can't see there's any Web Mapping feature associated with the site either.
PortlandBill
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You can download 6inch PDF maps from www.old-maps.co.uk they cost about £15 though 
. I converted a plan of DEWSNAP sidings from the 1964 ordnance survey maps from PDF to JPEG using www.zamzar.com (free service). I then used transDEM to georeference the JPEG. This has produced excellent, if pricey, results for me.
. I converted a plan of DEWSNAP sidings from the 1964 ordnance survey maps from PDF to JPEG using www.zamzar.com (free service). I then used transDEM to georeference the JPEG. This has produced excellent, if pricey, results for me.Sorry everyone, I only did half the post. What I meant to add was the link - http://maps.nls.uk/os/oneinch_new_popular_list.html and also mention the era - 1945/47, which was the period just before the 'Big Four' became British Railways. There are no motorways and such like and it was, of course, just after WWII when there was still evidence of airfields, army camps and destruction.
stagecoach
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You wont get them onto a baseboard. Dem maps are used for that purpose if you know how to do it. This is a simply way to put the image onto a basemap which is an object asset found on the DLS. You place the image into the basemap and then onto the baseboard in the same way as any other asset. You can raise and lower it and lay your track and roads etc over it. Once done it can then be deleted.
stagecoach
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You need to download the 1km basemap from the DLS. Open the folder and you will see an image file. Replace that image with yours making sure you use exactly the same type,size and name for your image. Once installed you find it in the object section.
It would be great if you could get these old 1 inch OS maps into TransDEM. That way they'd be directly 'painted' onto the baseboards. But how to do it?
See my TransDEM forum post how to access some of the historic UK maps directly, using the built-in Map Tile client.
Actually, no - TransDEM does it much better and all automatically.
Thank you. This is what I had in mind! :clap:
Paul