Map Finder - with Marker pin - Help

You can use this application to search and view all of our online maps. This search process complements our main Map Finder - with Outlines application that allows searching showing the boundaries or outlines of map sheets. Our Georeferenced Maps application allows a selection of seamless mosaics to be viewed.

Watch a Help video on the Map Finder viewer.

There are multiple zoom levels in the map viewer, but the returned maps are at just three main levels of detail / scales on the right-hand side:

You can switch to set the map viewer to display just 3 zoom levels by selecting the View 3 zoom levels button (upper right).

Navigation

Go to other viewers for the same area:

Map Finder with Outlines header

Main search process

Map Finder - with Marker Pin interface with instructions
Map Finder- with Marker Pin interface with instructions
  1. Move the marker to your point of interest. Just click on the map to move the marker there. You can also search by placenames (upper left), and the marker and map will locate to your chosen placename.
  2. (Optionally) filter the maps by date range, map type, keyword or scale.
  3. The maps covering the marker location appear in the Results on the right. Click on the map image thumbnails to view the maps.
  1. Move the marker to your point of interest. Just click on the map to move the marker there. You can also search by placenames (upper left), and the marker and map will locate to your chosen placename.
  2. The maps covering the marker location appear in the Results on the right. Click on the map image thumbnails to view the maps.
  3. (Optionally) filter the maps by date range, map type, keyword or scale.
Map Finder- with Marker Pin interface - Filter by date instructions

All of our online maps are searched in this application.

Gazetteer

The Search Button Search button allows you to search using a Gazetteer of Place Names, or by Counties/Parishes.

Search places panel, allowing placenames, or counties / parishes to be searched

Further information on the Gazetteer.

Limit results by date range

Change the date range sliders in the left-hand panel to limit the maps returned to a particular span of years.

Limit results by scale

By default, the maps returned are based on the scale of your main map. When zoomed out, covering a wider geographic area, less detailed maps are returned. When zoomed in, covering a smaller geographic area, more detailed maps are returned. To change this to return all maps, regardless of the zoom level, change the Scales of returned maps to 'All scales' in the left-hand panel.

Printing and Image Export/Download (lower left)

If you click/tap on the print icon print icon , to the lower left of the screen, then a print panel opens with various options:

At this stage you can also pan/drag or zoom the map image to make sure its covering exactly the right area of interest.

You can then save the image in various formats – JPEG, PNG, PDF, or copy the image to clipboard. It is also possible to print the map directly to a printer.

Linking to the viewer

The URL in your web browser address bar changes dynamically as you zoom and pan the map, and when you change the position of the marker or date range. You may copy or bookmark the URL in your web browser address bar to save the current viewer location and returned maps.

Application

This application uses OpenLayers as its main interface, as well as GeoServer for Web Feature Services.

We have released the OpenLayers code behind this viewer on Github for onward use. Please see the GeoCart 2018 - ANZMapS Historical Maps Online Workshop, for a set of freely downloadable basic OpenLayers viewers with code and notes. For further details, please consult the following:

Please email maps@nls.uk for further assistance, or to provide general comments/feedback.