Detail from John Rocque's 1746 map of London as used on this
website.
Locating London’s Past
provides an intuitive GIS interface enabling researchers to map
and visualize textual and artefactual data relating to
seventeenth and eighteenth-century London against John Rocque’s
1746 map of London and the first accurate modern OS map.
Project Information
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Project partners and funders, technical information,
advertising and donations, future plans, project staff,
acknowledgements
Mapping Methodology
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Creating a single map, geo-referencing and warping Rocque,
indexing place names, the Holborn Viaduct dilemma
The Geocoder: A Tool for Geo-Referencing Place Names
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The geocoding tool to facilitate automated matching and manual
checking of 4.9 million place names