Category Archives: LocLonGeneral

Rocque map gets new identities.

Posted on 4 October 2011 by

The last post described how an existing place name index created for the Rocque 1746 map had been georeferenced, and how the   streets and notable places shown on the map had been digitised from the 1st/2nd edition OS maps of … Continue reading →

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Populating Rocque – What was where?

Posted on 4 October 2011 by

The last three  posts looked at how the 24 individual sheets of John Rocque’s map of 1746 showing central London and its immediate environs, were stitched together to create a single image, how that image was then referenced to the … Continue reading →

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Fitting Rocque to modern London – Investigating the warp factor

Posted on 26 September 2011 by

The last post looked at how the single composite scan made from the 24 separate sheets of John Rocque’s 1746 map  of central London, were fitted  in place over moden mapping using the process named georeferencing.  When applied to historic … Continue reading →

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Fitting Rocque to modern London – Georeferencing

Posted on 26 September 2011 by

The last post explained how scans of the 24 individual sheets of John  Rocque’s 1746 map of centralLondonhad been fitted  together so they comprised a single image.  In this post the process by which that image was taken and fitted … Continue reading →

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Estimating Parish Populations from the Bills of Mortality

Posted on 8 July 2011 by

Creating a historical GIS environment has been the primary goal of this project, but without detailed information about parish population figures it is impossible to make best use of the mapping environment.  Population density, crimes or deaths or wealth per … Continue reading →

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Recreating Rocque – London 1746

Posted on 22 June 2011 by

One of MoLA’s most tangible project deliverables, was a fully articulated and geo-referenced version of John Rocque’s 1746 map of central London and its immediate environs. This map covers an area of roughly 9 by 3kms, and was created between … Continue reading →

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The Project

Posted on 2 March 2011 by

Locating London’s Past will create an intuitive GIS interface that will enable researchers to map and visualize textual and artefactual data relating to seventeenth and eighteenth-century London against a fully rasterised version of John Rocque’s 1746 map of London and … Continue reading →

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