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NLS Historic Maps API: Historical Maps of Great Britain ...
This seamless historic map can be:
embedded in your own website
used for research purposes
... rdnance Survey maps, dating from the 1920s to the 1940s.

NLS Historic Maps API - Map images - National Library of Scotland
http://maps.nls.uk/projects/api/index.html

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NLS Historic Maps API: Historical Maps of Great Britain for use in mashups

This seamless historic map can be:

  • embedded in your own website
  • used for research purposes
  • used as a backdrop for your own markers or geographic data
  • used to create derivative work (such as OpenStreetMap) from it.

The mapping is based on out-of-copyright Ordnance Survey maps, dating from the 1920s to the 1940s.

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<h2 id="pageTitle">NLS Historic Maps API: Historical Maps of Great Britain for use in mashups</h2> <div style="float:right"><iframe src="http://nls.tileserver.com/" frameborder="1" height="350" scrolling="no" width="350"></iframe></div> <p> This seamless historic map can be:</p> <ul> <li>embedded in your own website</li> <li>used for research purposes</li> <li>used as a backdrop for your own markers or geographic data</li> <li>used to create derivative work (such as <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/">OpenStreetMap</a>) from it. </li> </ul> <p>The mapping is based on out-of-copyright Ordnance Survey maps, dating from the 1920s to the 1940s.</p>