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SPOT THE DIFFERENCE!

Login to Digimap, start Ancient Roam. Try and find at least 3 functions that are not available in Roam (Ordnance Survey):

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SPOT THE DIFFERENCE!

Login to Digimap, start Ancient Roam. Try and find at least 3 functions that are not available in Roam (Ordnance Survey):

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TIPS

How would you…

View maps from different decades for your location? View 2 maps of the same location side by side? Select one map, where maps for the same area are

overlapping? Find out the publication date of the map you are

viewing?

 

 

 

TIPS

How would you…

View maps from different decades for your location? View 2 maps of the same location side by side? Select one map, where maps for the same area are

overlapping? Find out the publication date of the map you are

viewing?

 

 

 

• View, save, annotate and print historic Ordnance Survey maps from 1838 – 1997.

• Range of map scales available.

Map images: © Landmark Information Group Ltd and Crown copyright 2015. FOR EDUCATIONAL USE ONLY.

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1. Login to Digimap, select Historic Digimap > Ancient Roam.2. Search for L3 4AA.3. Select 1920s.4. Zoom in to Street View 2, on the Custom House (North East

of Albert Dock, highlighted on image). 5. Select 2 up view – compare 1920s with 1950s. Return to 1up

view (1920s map).6. Open the Annotation tools, select the polygon tool.7. Add a polygon over Custom House (1920s map).8. Click Save > My Map. Name it Custom House.9. Write down what map series, edition, scale and date you are

viewing – click the information button then click on the map:

* Map series ---------------------------- * Edition

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* Scale ------------------------------------ * Date

------------------------------10.Finally, open Roam Ordnance Survey and view your Custom

House map – select Open > My Maps.

Recreate map of central Liverpool:

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Create a file to import to Ancient Roam:

• Find and double click the file liverpool_WWII_bombs.CSV. It should open in Excel. Note the Custom House line has no coordinates – let’s add them.

• Go back to Ancient Roam.• Select Open > My Maps and open your Custom House map.• Open the Map Information panel (to left of map).• Hover your cursor over Custom House.• Note the Cursor Coordinates (first is Easting, right is

Northing).• Enter the coordinates on your liverpool_WWII_bombs.CSV

file, in the Custom House line.• Save and close the CSV file.• Go back to Ancient Roam. Let’s open our file.• Select Open > Annotations from file.• Click Browse, select your memory stick, then the liverpool

CSV file.• Click Open, then Import.• Set X as Easting and Y as Northing.• On the timeline, display a map from 1950s.• Zoom in and view some of the markers.

Make some Historic MapsOur suggestions:

Search using SW7 2AZ. Zoom into Plan views 1 and 2. What was on the site of Imperial College London (behind Royal Albert Hall, bordered by Queens Gate and Princes Gate) in the 1870s?

Compare 2 maps of the area around Coventry Cathedral, pre WWII and post WWII. Search using CV1 5AB. Cathedral is marked as St Michaels Church until 1930s maps.

Zoom into Street views.

Use your postcode to see what was on the site of your house!

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