Transcription projects
View Transcription project results / work-in-progress
From February - May 2022, we initiated a set of new collaborative projects to transcribe features and text from maps. We have gathered all of the placenames from the Roy Military Survey maps of Scotland (1747-55), traced footpaths from Ordnance Survey six-inch to the mile maps of Scotland (ca.1900s), and gathered text from Ordnance Survey 25 inch to the mile mapping of Edinburgh.
- Roy Military Survey - placename transcriptions
- We are very pleased to report that all Roy Names, their accompanying Ordnance Survey names, and comments have been successfully reviewed and edited. We are very grateful to everyone who has helped us with this. Some checking and revision of names is still onging - updates are announced on the Roy Transcriptions Forum
- August 2022 The following ways of accessing the Roy Gazetteer are now available:
- Scotways Historic Footpaths Project
August 2022 Work still in progress. We have traced over 78,000 footpaths, spanning over 27,000 miles across Scotland. View these paths:
- Footpaths Side by side viewer (OS One-inch 1900s / Bartholomew 1900s)
- Footpaths Side by side viewer (OS Six-Inch 1900s / OpenStreetMap)
- Please read our Scotways Historic Footpaths Project Help page before beginning
- OS 25 inch Edinburgh Placenames Project
- Following the successful recording of all 30,043 transcriptions in the first two weeks, further work is taking place to edit and revise the transcriptions to complete them.
In the interim, updates are announced on the Edinburgh Transcriptions Forum, and the names can be searched in our Edinburgh Placenames Project - Demonstration Viewer
- Following the successful recording of all 30,043 transcriptions in the first two weeks, further work is taking place to edit and revise the transcriptions to complete them.