{"id":9939,"date":"2014-03-25T20:24:23","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T20:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=9939"},"modified":"2014-03-25T20:24:23","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T20:24:23","slug":"16-inch-ordnance-survey-maps-of-great-britain-1842-1952","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2014\/03\/25\/16-inch-ordnance-survey-maps-of-great-britain-1842-1952\/","title":{"rendered":"1:6-inch Ordnance Survey maps of Great Britain, 1842-1952"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All the six-inch to the mile Ordnance Survey maps of Great Britain, 1842-1952.  Now free, zoomable, and <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.nls.uk\/os\/6inch-england-and-wales\/\">synced as geo-located historical series onto Google Maps<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2014\/03\/osmaps.jpg\" alt=\"osmaps\" width=\"441\" height=\"392\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9940\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It would be nice if they could get a system to extract all the keywords from the map lettering, rectify the (inevitably corrupted) keywords by fuzzy matching each of them against a standard historical gazetteer \/ place-name list for the area, then inject the hyper-linked names into each map&#8217;s page as keywords.  That way the maps would be more easily searchable by keyword in Google Search.  I&#8217;m not sure that&#8217;s even possible when old-style text is overlapping with graphical elements, as seen below, but it might be interesting to try&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2014\/03\/placennames.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2014\/03\/placennames.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"placennames\" width=\"529\" height=\"177\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-9949\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The modern names of places can, of course, already be looked up.  But &#8220;Gerrardsfold&#8221; for instance, seen above in Cheshire, can only take one to a &#8220;Gerrards Fold Barn&#8221; in Lancashire when using the service&#8217;s modern lookup gazetteer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the six-inch to the mile Ordnance Survey maps of Great Britain, 1842-1952. Now free, zoomable, and synced as geo-located &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2014\/03\/25\/16-inch-ordnance-survey-maps-of-great-britain-1842-1952\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotted-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}