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<title>Charting the Nation: About the Project</title>
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<h3 id='main'>About the Project</h3>
<p>Charting the Nation is a collaborative digital
imaging and cataloguing project with the primary aim of widening access
to maps of Scotland and their associated texts dating from ca.
1550 to 1740.</p>
<p>This three-year project (1999-2002) was funded by a major
award to the University of Edinburgh from the <a href="http://www.rslp.ac.uk/" target ="_blank">Research
Support Libraries Programme<span class='sr-only'> (Opens in a new tab)</span></a> (RSLP), on behalf of the Scottish Higher
Education Funding Council (SHEFC). Additional funding was received
from the Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network (<a href=
"http://www.scran.ac.uk" target ="_blank">SCRAN<span class='sr-only'> (Opens in a new tab)</span></a>) and the National Library of Scotland.</p>
<p>Although Charting the Nation is now managed by Edinburgh University Library,
the development phase took place within the University's Department of Geography. The project involves
a core consortium of 9 other higher education and national institutions within the United
Kingdom:</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.abdn.ac.uk/" target ="_blank">University of Aberdeen<span class='sr-only'> (Opens in a new tab)</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.cam.ac.uk/" target ="_blank">University of Cambridge<span class='sr-only'> (Opens in a new tab)</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.dundee.ac.uk/" target ="_blank">University of Dundee<span class='sr-only'> (Opens in a new tab)</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gla.ac.uk/" target ="_blank">University of Glasgow<span class='sr-only'> (Opens in a new tab)</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/" target ="_blank">Bodleian Library,
University of Oxford<span class='sr-only'> (Opens in a new tab)</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.nls.uk" target ="_blank">National Library of Scotland<span class='sr-only'> (Opens in a new tab)</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.nrscotland.gov.uk" target ="_blank">National
Records of Scotland<span class='sr-only'> (Opens in a new tab)</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.rcahms.gov.uk/" target ="_blank">Royal Commission
on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland<span class='sr-only'> (Opens in a new tab)</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/%7Ersgs/" target ="_blank">Royal Scottish
Geographical Society<span class='sr-only'> (Opens in a new tab)</span></a></li>
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<p><a href="collab.html">See full list of collaborating
institutions</a></p>
<h5>Why Charting the Nation?</h5>
<p>Charting the Nation is important because of
the significance of historic maps and related textual material for research
and education in numerous disciplines. These include historical geography,
cartographic history, maritime history, architectural history, archaeology,
environmental history, and even for research on the evolution of ideas
about the shape of the nation itself.</p>
<p>However, many of the map and archive sources relating
to the cartographic history of Scotland are fragile, unique, and rare.
As a result, holding institutions have not been able hitherto to make
them as widely available to researchers as they might wish. An additional
problem for researchers has been the wide dispersion of the maps throughout
the UK, and the fact that many related textual archives are located in
different institutions hundreds of miles apart. Charting the Nation
brings all these related materials together in an innovative and accessible
way.</p>
<h5>The time period: 1550-1740</h5>
<p>At its inception, the project was planned to incorporate
maps and relevant textual archival material dating from post 1590, the
period immediately following the late sixteenth century field mapping
of much of Scotland by Timothy Pont (1565 or 6-ca. 1614). The
work of Pont was the subject of a major 5 year research project (<a href="http://www.nls.uk/pont/index.html" target ="_blank">Project
Pont<span class='sr-only'> (Opens in a new tab)</span></a>) from 1996 to 2001. That project was led by the National Library
of Scotland, but it also involved several higher education institutions
including the Department of Geography of the University of Edinburgh.
Digital images of <a href="http://www.nls.uk/pont/index.html" target ="_blank">Pont's
manuscript maps<span class='sr-only'> (Opens in a new tab)</span></a> are available at the National
Library of Scotland web site. In practice, Charting the Nation
has been able to incorporate a significant number items that pre-date the work of
Pont, the earliest of which is currently a manuscript map of the English/Scottish
border, dated 1552 (image no: 00003444).</p>
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<p>The formal end date of 1740 was chosen for the project
because it is recognised that during the 1740s there was a 'new beginning'
for mapping in Scotland (and indeed in Britain), a development characterised
by adoption of 'standard' mapping practices by the Military Survey under
General William Roy. (<a href="http://maps.nls.uk/geo/roy" target="_blank">The important Roy
map is now available online<span class='sr-only'> (Opens in a new tab)</span></a>, courtesy of the British Library and SCRAN).
Again, however, in practice a number of maps from the later eighteenth
century have been included in Charting the Nation, in particular
a significant body of manuscript estate plans that cannot be dated with
certainty.</p>
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<p> <img src="graphics/elgin.jpg" width="298" height="195" alt="The Elgin Project"><br>
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<h5>The Board of Ordnance collection</h5>
<p>Also included on this web site is the important <a href="http://maps.nls.uk/military/scotland.html" target ="_blank">Board
of Ordnance<span class='sr-only'> (Opens in a new tab)</span></a> collection of military maps and architectural plans now
held by the National Library of Scotland. These date from ca. 1690 to
ca. 1820. All these maps and plans were scanned and are made available
here in order to maintain the integrity of the collection.</p>
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<pre>Published by <a href="http://www.lib.ed.ac.uk">Edinburgh University Library</a> <br>Last Updated:09-09-2014 </pre>
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