Today the Digimap for Schools team release two new wonderful features – 1950s OS historic mapping and a text box tool.
The 1950s mapping fill in the mid point time period between the 1890s and current OS mapping. Â The 1950s mapping are perfect for comparing changes over time and exploring the landscape, urban areas, road network and other features of post-war Britain.
We’ve made a small tweak to the interface to enable the selection of any two time periods, using the buttons and the slider (shown below) you can choose whether to view 1890s, 1950s or mapping from today, and any combination of two maps.
When a decade button is blue, click it to toggle it off and switch on the other map. Â You can watch a demo video on the Digimap for Schools YouTube Channel
The 1950s mapping is lovely to look at and a wonderful addition to the mapping available in Digimap for Schools. Â The maps have been provided by the National Library of Scotland.
The other great feature we’ve added, is the ability to add a text box to your map. Â Until now, users have only been able to add short text labels which is a bit restrictive when you want to write a longer piece of information to annotate the map.
The Text Box tool can be found in the Annotations Toolbar in a sub-menu of the Label tool.
Click to activate the tool and click on your map to add the Text Box. Â Then simply click in the box to start typing. Â Resize the box to display as much text as you like!
1950s Milton Keynes map with a text box