Free on-line maps

[Nostrodamus]

Not quiet strictly sailing but I know how much you lot love maps, charts and history so many of you may find this useful.
The Scottish O/S have put many maps of the UK (older ones) on-line for free.
I am sure these will be of interest to a few of you.
http://maps.nls.uk/os/index.html

 

[lustyd]

Not quiet strictly sailing but I know how much you lot love maps, charts and history so many of you may find this useful.
The Scottish O/S have put many maps of the UK (older ones) on-line for free.
I am sure these will be of interest to a few of you.
http://maps.nls.uk/os/index.html

Microsoft have put all of the OS maps on maps.bing.com for free. No idea how old they are though.

 

[CAPTAIN FANTASTIC]

.....bit difficult to navigate with; but I will have a go....haha

 

[alan_d]

Not quiet strictly sailing but I know how much you lot love maps, charts and history so many of you may find this useful.
The Scottish O/S have put many maps of the UK (older ones) on-line for free.
I am sure these will be of interest to a few of you.
http://maps.nls.uk/os/index.html

There is no such thing as the Scottish Ordnance Survey. The organisation that is making the maps available online is the National Library of Scotland - hence the nls.uk in the URL. You can also get lots of older and historic charts from the same source, see http://maps.nls.uk/coasts/index.html

 

[yacht1948]

Are there free maps dedicated to sailors in the UK?
Thanks, Willy

 

[fergie_mac66]

OS

get a map from OSalso for free

http://www.magazine.ordnancesurveyl...general/ordnance-survey-maps-online-free.html

edit have change to correct link

 

[yacht1948]

Oh, thank you.
Willy

 

[fergie_mac66]

Oh, thank you.
Willy

sorry not sea charts

 

[fergie_mac66]

With os get a map however, i have found a way to convert them in blocks to go into opencpn takes a while but for a few areas its usefull when anchored to be able to see detail on land

 

[lustyd]

get a map from OS free

https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/shop/os-getamap.html

They seem to want money to do the things I do for free on http://maps.bing.co.uk with identical mapping.

 

[mjcoon]

They [UK-OS] seem to want money to do the things I do for free on http://maps.bing.co.uk with identical mapping.

I don't know what you do with bing (I go Google on principle to avoid M$ as far as possible). But a few years ago I downloaded Gb of map data from OS for nothing. Both raster down to individual building level, and scalable vector maps of roads.

Mike.

 

[fergie_mac66]

They seem to want money to do the things I do for free on http://maps.bing.co.uk with identical mapping.

no you can get as many a4 buits ofmap as you want free

sorry that link has changed to this

http://www.magazine.ordnancesurveyl...general/ordnance-survey-maps-online-free.html

editit appears tha OS have changed and althought they say free you need subscription hmm to getfree you need microsoftsilverlight on windows only, not on linux

http://www.getamap.ordnancesurveyleisure.co.uk/silverlight-install/install

 

[AndrewB]

Yes it's odd that until quite recently 25000 series OS maps were freely available on the internet.

Incidentally there are stacks of historical charts for England & Wales available from various internet sites (google: "historical nautical charts"), some near full-sized. Not much use for navigation, but they make pleasing PC wall-paper etc. I like in particular Royal Greenwich Museum's collection, http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections.html#!csearch, (browse "Charts & Maps"), though these are world-wide charts.

 

[bikedaft]

Bing.com/maps seem to be current, down to 1:25000

Geograph.org.uk has os maps down to 1:10000, if you click on the wee os map you get a pop up window, and change the scale

Online charts navionics.com/webapp/en

Good for dreaming at work...

 

[MoodySabre]

Free OS maps here too http://maps.the-hug.net/

 

[Bru]

And free OS mapping at the daddy (or more accurately mummy) of map websites www.streetmap.co.uk

 

[Viking]

Anyone sailing in Norwegian waters. Try www.gulesider.no/karts/sjøkart. And they can be printed off!

 

[gordmac]

Interesting, thanks.

 

[pagoda]

Anyone sailing in Norwegian waters. Try www.gulesider.no/karts/sjøkart. And they can be printed off!

nice one!.. never spotted that. I have bought some real charts anyway, but being able to print off fragments to scribble/annotate could be handy.