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Title: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, 1827 (Raster Image)

• Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library
• Hamilton, Robert, of Edinburgh.
• Thomson, Charles, engraver.

Dates

• Issued: 2015-01
• Coverage: 1827

Publishers

• Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library

Summary

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Hamilton's plan of the city of Edinburgh and its vicinity, drawn & engd. by Charles Thomson Edinr. It was published by Robert Hamilton Ornamental Stationer to His Majesty in 1827. Scale [ca. 1:12,000]. Covers Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the 'British National Grid' coordinate system. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map.This map shows features such as roads, drainage, built-up areas and selected buildings, parks, and more. Relief shown by hachures. Includes also illustrations and inset: Plan of the environs of Edinburgh.This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from The Harvard Map Collection as part of the Imaging the Urban Environment project. Maps selected for this project represent major urban areas and cities of the world, at various time periods. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features at a large scale. The selection represents a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and purposes.

Subjects

• Transportation
• United Kingdom
• Edinburgh
• Maps
• Human settlements
• Cities and towns
• Land use
• Landforms
• Infrastructure (Economics)
• Bodies of water
• imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
• Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

• Bounding Box: BBOX (-3.24712, -3.128565, 55.982575, 55.928113)
• Geometry: BBOX (-3.24712, -3.128565, 55.982575, 55.928113)

Provider

Harvard

Rights

• Access rights: Public

Citation

Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library, Hamilton, Robert, of Edinburgh., Thomson, Charles, engraver. Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, 1827 (Raster Image). Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library. Raster data. https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-g5774-e2a1-1827-h3

Format

GeoTIFF