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Victorian London in Incredible Detail

Posted on Friday 4 October 2013 by Oliver O’Brien

[Update – Links fixed to repoint to the correct version […]

1896, black and white, Historic, london, mastermap, old, ordnance survey, os, streets, victorian

Generalising OS MasterMap Buildings

Posted on Tuesday 20 December 2011 by Daniel Lewis

The purpose of map generalisation is to represent spatial data in a way that makes it possible to effectively view the data at scales smaller than that for which it was originally intended. In the case of the Ordnance Survey’s MasterMap product you have data at an incredibly fine level of spatial resolution, which is […]

buildings, generalisation, geometry, GIS, mastermap, Representation, scale