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These are a few sites whose subject matter may interest visitors to this site. There are many other good hillwalking sites of course. The better sites tend to be well known; some can be found in the Links pages of the sites listed below.
Resources
Maps
- OS OpenData
Vector mapping at a nominal 1:25k scale on zoom settings 8 and 9 and a nominal 1:10k scale on settings 10 and 11. The former show spot heights absent from 1:25k Explorer maps, some of which are at summits or cols. With rare exceptions, the latter have no spot heights but are useful for towns.
- Magic Maps
Large scale interactive maps
- UK Street Map Coordinate Converter
Useful for obtaining xcoord, ycoord values for old-maps.co.uk when not available from the DoBIH
- old-maps.co.uk
Invaluable online source of old 1:10560 and 1:2500 maps
- Old Ordnance Survey Maps
High quality images of a selection of old 1" maps, and links to other old map sites
- Where's the path
OS and Google mapping side by side, or two OS maps, with choice of modern 1:50k and 1930s/1940s 1" OS maps. It defaults to the latter after the allocated number of 1:50k map tiles per day has been reached.
- New Popular Edition Maps
Another source of 1940s 1:63360 maps
General
- TACit Press
The Angry Corrie magazine. The most recent issues may not be shown.
- The Munro Society
Includes details of the survey methods used to create accurate heighting data for the Database of British and Irish Hills
- Significant Summits
Alun-Peter Fisher's site focusing on prominence
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