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Charting The Nation

Charting the NationThis collaborative digital imaging and cataloguing project aims to preserve and widen access to maps of Scotland and their associated archives for the period 1590-1740. The project will create a catalogued image bank of both manuscript and printed maps available to researchers across a wide range of disciplines on a new website.

Lead site: Department of Geography, University of Edinburgh
Status: Completed 31st July 2002
Local Contact: John Moore (j.moore@lib.gla.ac.uk)
Website: http://www.chartingthenation.lib.ed.ac.uk/index.html
Final Report: Pending. An essay 'Mapping Scotland' by CJW Withers sets the project in its historical context.