Case Study: ScotlandsPlaces website achieves accurate, shareable map-based discovery of Scotland’s historic collections with Ordnance Survey

ScotlandsPlaces - Customer Case Study

ScotlandsPlaces, the website developed by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS) and the National Archives of Scotland (NAS), needed an intuitive web mapping interface to display geo‑coded historic records and to allow users to download raw KML while resolving licensing constraints. To meet this challenge the project used Ordnance Survey map layers licensed under the One Scotland Mapping Agreement for background mapping and search guidance.

Ordnance Survey supplied the mapping layers and licensing (including a click‑through end‑user licence for KML export) and the site combined those layers with web services so datasets remain with their host organisations. The Ordnance Survey-enabled solution delivered coordinate‑level search accuracy, easy KML export for reuse, improved user experience and data sharing (users praised the KML feature), and helped the ScotlandsPlaces project win recognition at AGI Scotland 2010 for its “One Geography” approach.

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