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Where is it? Describing and using maps and plans.

Where is it? Describing and using maps and plans. Paula Williams, Curator, Maps, Mountaineering & Polar Collections. Map enquiries. Site surveys business local history family history. Map enquiries. Places at a specific point in time: Legal Planning Ownership History Architecture

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Where is it? Describing and using maps and plans.

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  1. Where is it?Describing and using maps and plans. • Paula Williams, Curator, Maps, Mountaineering & Polar Collections

  2. Map enquiries • Site surveys • business • local history • family history

  3. Map enquiries • Places at a specific point in time: • Legal • Planning • Ownership • History • Architecture • Garden and landscape • Route and travel planning

  4. Map enquiries • Design and other random enquiries! • Compass roses for patchwork quilt • Geology map colouration for landsape painting • Commercial packaging • Burger van signage!

  5. “Cataloguing time spent once is reference time spent over and over again …” Mary Larsgaard.

  6. … by any other name…

  7. Mathematical Description • Projection • Scale • Datum and survey data • Coordinates

  8. Physical Description • Height by width • Binding formats • hardback, paperback, spiral • folded, rolled, laminated • Relief • Colour

  9. Explanation • What does it show? • Place • Topic or subject • What is it? • Publishing history • Printcodes

  10. Placenames as subject headings • Library of Congress Subject Headings. • Place (Qualifier) – Subject – Form • Subject – Qualifier – Place • Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names. • Hierarchical structure • e.g. World – Europe – United Kingdom – Scotland – Glasgow – Unitary Authority • British Museum/Home grown subject headings. • Place – Subject – Date– Form

  11. A bit about placenames … • Ineloid, Ineloid = InchinaInchina • Bunnahabhain or Bonavon? • HOYK • Strachan • Isle of Amron

  12. Check your OPAC! • Do the cartographic fields display? • Do they appear in a logical order? • Do the symbols display correctly? "Central meridian is 12  east of Greenwich".

  13. Contact us… • Maps Reading Room • National Library of Scotland 159 Causewayside Edinburgh EH9 1PH • 0131 623 3970 • maps@nls.uk • www.nls.uk/maps

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