“Know your place”: Council release historic maps of Bristol

by Kevin on March 17, 2011 · 5 comments

Bristol City Council has created a website that enables people to explore their neighbourhoods through historic maps, images and linked information.

‘Know Your Place’ allows wider access to Bristol’s historic maps as well as enabling people to share their own information and images about Bristol.

To enter ‘Know Your Place’ go to maps.bristol.gov.uk/knowyourplace. This version of the site requires the ‘Silverlight’ browser plug-in.

Alternatively you can use this link maps.bristol.gov.uk/knowyourplace/?maptype=js. This link does not require the plug-in, but does not have some of the tools available on the Silverlight version.

If you want to subscribe to ‘Know Your Place’ so that your browser receives a notification when information is updated or maps added, go to the RSS Feed.

Tagged as: historic maps

  • Woodsy

    I thought Bristol City Council supported open standards/open source and digital inclusion.

    With this project you've fallen back into old habits by using closed source proprietary software. Getting Silverlight stuff to run on a Linux box is a real pain (if it works at all), even for someone of several years Linux experience.

    Well done for practising digital exclusion with this latest project.

  • Jim Wormold

    I love maps, especially ones with a time-travelling portal/spyglass option! Who knew there used to be so many tennis courts around Victorian York Gardens in Clifton?

  • Kevin

    Hi Woodsy

    There is an alternative link in the post to a version of the maps that run without the Silverlight plug-in maps.bristol.gov.uk/knowyourpl…

    k

  • http://www.spatialtechnologies.ca/products/leica/disto-laser-distance-measurement/ Nyree Leclaire

    It would be good if we also have those kinds of maps made more public. Not everyone would go crazy over it, but it would be good to compare the old maps and the new. It's a bit like time traveling, when you finally visit those places.

  • Ivor Jones

    I like this as an old Bristolian now living in Australia (leaving in 1958 at the age of 11 years), I can search these maps and find some of the places at which my ancestors once lived.

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