By Giles Darkes — HTT Cartographer Most of the maps that we produce use a digitised version of an OS map from somewhere between 1880 and 1930 as the base map, and we then add the historical information to it. The OS map is converted into a vector digitised form, and that means capturing the main features on the map and converting them into points, lines and areas.  Once they’ve been converted, it means that we can apply a cartographic style to them, and then add the historica

By Sydney Burgess Upon closer look of the Historic Towns Trust map of Coventry , delicate blue lines emerge among street and property boundaries (Figure 1). These faint traces of the River Sherbourne once powered Coventry’s industry, defined its neighbourhoods and structured daily lives. Figure 1: Extract from the Historic Towns Trust map of Coventry — includes Mill Pond and Dam and Corn Mill along the River Sherbourne. This river, which has its source at Corley Moor, moves u

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Dr Tom Pickles leads the workshop Following the publication of our An Historical Map of Chester: Mercantile Centre & Cathedral City we...