Historic Maps of Edinburgh

[rmolehusband]

NLS has a new mapping project on line in which historic maps of Edinburgh are georeferenced, which I think is a fancy way of saying the old maps are overlaid on contemporary Google maps.

http://geo.nls.uk/urbhist/index.html

There are currently a few maps covering Porty in the examples section.

The site is very slow at the moment, but hopefully that's down it being new and thus very busy.

[wangi]

[wangi]

And the 1893-4 1:500 large scale town plan is rather nice: http://geo.nls.uk/maps/towns/portobello/openlayers.html

[Bob Jefferson]

Great find. I'm puzzled by that 1893-4 map though. Portobello seems to be way ahead in the automotive industry.