Maps of the UK and Ireland are available in various media.

Printed Maps

Leading publishers of maps and atlases of the UK and Ireland include:

• The Ordnance Survey of Great Britain
• The Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland
• Ordnance Survey Ireland
• Collins, an imprint of HarperCollins
• Geographers' A-Z Map Company Limited
• Philip's, an imprint of Octopus Publishing Group
• Michelin
• The AA

Maps on CD ROM

Fugawi offer a series of 1:50,000 and 1:250,000 scale UK Ordnance Survey maps including a gazetteer of place names. The areas covered are:

• Northern Scotland
• Northern England and Central Scotland
• Midlands and North Wales
• Southern England and South Wales

Memory-Map, Anquet and Tracklogs also offer Ordnance Survey maps on CD ROM, including 1:50,000 and 1:25,000 scale maps.

A Microsoft product, Autoroute 2005, includes detailed coverage of Great Britain though new roads such as the M6 Toll which opened in December 2003 are still shown as under construction and Ireland, including Northern Ireland is poorly treated.

Online Maps

A number of websites offer maps of Great Britain and Ireland.

Ordnance Survey

The Ordnance Survey is an agency of the government of the United Kingdom.

• External Link: getamap.ordnancesurvey.co.uk
• Coverage: Great Britain, the Isle of Man and Northern Ireland
• Map image size: 400 x 400 pixels
• Map scale: 6500 m per pixel to 5 m per pixel for Great Britain
• Map scale: 6500 m per pixel to 10 m per pixel for the Isle of Man
• Map scale: 6500 m per pixel to 75 m per pixel for Northern Ireland
• Map date (as at March 2005): 2003 for Great Britain and Isle of Man
• Map date (as at March 2005): 1997 for Northern Ireland more detailed maps
• Map date (as at March 2005): 2000 for Northern Ireland less detailed maps
• Search by: place name, postcode
• Wikipedia templates: Gbmapping, Gbmappingsmall, Gbmaprim

Street Map

The Street Map site is compiled and made available by BTex Limited.

• External Link: www.streetmap.co.uk
• Coverage: Great Britain
• Map image size: choice of 750 x 750 pixels or 1250 x 1250 pixels
• Map scale: 333 m per pixel to 2 m per pixel
• Map date (as at March 2005): varies, approximately 2000
• Search by: street name, postcode, place name, Ordnance Survey grid reference, Landranger grid reference, latitude and longitude, telephone code

Map Ireland

• External Link: www.map-ireland.com
• Coverage: Ireland (Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland)
• Map image size: choice of 342 x 292 pixels or 400 x 305 pixels
• Map scale: 300 m per pixel to 15 m per pixel in rural areas
• Map scale: 300 m per pixel to 1.5 m per pixel in urban areas
• Search by: place name

Multimap

• Wikipedia article: multimap.com
• External Link: www.multimap.com
• Coverage: British Isles
• Map image size: choice of 500 x 300 pixels or 700 x 400 pixels
• Map scale: 14 km per pixel to 21 m per pixel in some areas
• Map scale: 14 km per pixel to 1.3 m per pixel in some areas
• Search by: street name, postcode, place name
• Option in some areas to show an aerial photograph with a semi-transparent map overlay when the mouse is hovered over the area
• Wikipedia templates: mmukscaled, mmukpc prim, mmukpc

Old Maps

• External Link: www.old-maps.co.uk
• Map date: varies, mostly late victorian, around 1890
• Map image size: preview 600 x 320 pixels, detailed 2666 x 1786 pixels
• Map scale: about 0.894 m per pixel for the detailed map
• Search by: place name, numeric grid reference
• Wikipedia template: GBvosi

Vision of Britain

• External Link: www.visionofbritain.org.uk
• Coverage: Great Britain
• Map image size: 450 x 450 pixels
• Three complete sets of geo-referenced scanned images of Ordnance Survey one inch-to-the-mile maps of Britain: the 19th century First Series, the 1940s New Popular Edition and the inter-war Land Use Survey of Great Britain

Scotland in the 1920s

• External Link: www.nls.uk/digitallibrary/map/early/os_scotland_popular_list.html
• Coverage: Scotland
• Map Dates: 1921 to 1928
• Map Edition: Ordnance Survey One-inch Popular
• Map image size: 700 x 500 pixels
• Map scale: 20 m per pixel to 1.5 m per pixel or less to resolution of mapping

Election Maps

• External Link: www.election-maps.co.uk
• Coverage: UK
• Map image size: 580 x 540 pixels
• Map scale: 10 m per pixel to 50 cm per pixel with switchable smaller scale overview
• Full colour
• Search by: Westminster Parliamentary Constituency, Scottish Parliamentary Constituency, Welsh Assembly Constituency, Local Authority, European Region, Scottish Parliament/Welsh Assembly Electoral Region
• Layers show boundaries for search items and Parish, Ward, Electoral Division, County and GLA Constituency

Countryside Access Maps

The Countryside Agency has a statutory duty to prepare maps of all open country and registered common land in England (the Countryside Council for Wales has the same task in Wales).

• External Links: www.countryside.gov.uk (England), www.ccw.gov.uk (Wales)
• Coverage: England and Wales
• Map edition (at larger scales): Ordnance Survey Landplan (1:10 000)
• Map image size: 550 x 400 pixels
• Map scale: up to 1.3 m per pixel
• Greyscale with access information in colour
• Search by: Place name, postcode, grid reference

MAGIC

MAGIC is a web-based interactive map intended to bring together information on key environmental schemes and designations in one place. MAGIC partners are DEFRA (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs), The Countryside Agency, English Heritage, English Nature, The Environment Agency, The Forestry Commission and The ODPM (Office of the Deputy Prime Minister).

• External Link: www.magic.gov.uk
• Coverage: England
• Map image size: 890 x 500 pixels
• Map scale: 1.4 km per pixel to 50 cm per pixel or less to resolution of underlying mapping
• Underlying mapping is shown in greyscale with a watermark at higher resolutions
• Layers show many datasets from the participating organisations.

New Adelstrop Railway Atlas

• PDF file
• External Link: www.geowiki.co.uk/New_Adlestrop_Railway_Atlas.pdf
• Work in progress
• Current coverage: Wales and England south of York / Manchester
• Shows railway stations and lines whether open, closed or preserved