Survey summary map for the August 31, 2024 Oliver Lake and South Gillies, ON tornadoes. Ground survey conducted September 5-6, 2024. Map will include ground photos, drone photos, tornado centrelines, worst damage areas, survey route and drone flight paths. All data are preliminary.View survey summary map here

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This research project aimed to fill a major lacuna militating against the effective exploitation of many post-medieval to mid-Victorian historical sources collected by local administrative areas: the lack of information on the boundaries of those administrative areas, the so-called 'historic' or 'ancient' parishes of England and Wales. It is known that these districts came into being during the Middle Ages, that the map of these ecclesiastical parishes was essentially complete by the fifteenth century, that these ecclesiastical boundaries were adopted during the early modern period for secular and judicial purposes, and that boundaries remained essentially unchanged until a number of reforms from the mid-nineteenth century onwards reorganised the local administrative geography of the country. The project aimed to reconstruct those boundaries as they were before the post-nineteenth century changes.
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The digitised maps cover the whole of England and Wales, and are organised by Ordnance Survey Sheet number. The maps contain a scanned bitmap image of the Ordnance Survey one inch to one mile (1:63,360) New Popular Edition maps (1945-8) with National Grid. They contain the boundaries of some 18,233 places, and are arranged as three electronic 'layers'. The first is a scan of the Ordnance Survey maps stored as grey tone sheet images. This enables Ordnance Survey physical, cultural and place-name content to be readily visible in the background for orientation and general location purposes, while not obscuring the added boundary and reference number material. The second layer consists of the boundaries, stored as solid red lines; and the third layer contains the reference numbers that link places on the map to the gazetteer/metadata dataset that accompanies the maps.

The maps are available on CD-ROM in Adobe Illustrator (ISBN:0-9540032-2-5) or Adobe Acrobat (ISBN:0-9540032-1-7) PDF formats. We recommend using the Adobe Illustrator format if you already have the software (as it enables you to edit the maps and select the layers to view). However, the Adobe Acrobat PDF format is perfectly suitable for viewing the maps, and we will supply the necessary reader software.

An accompanying book Historic Parishes of England and Wales: An Electronic Map of Boundaries before 1850 with a Gazetteer and Metadata by Roger Kain and Richard Oliver (ISBN:0-9540032-0-9) provides an introduction to the provenance of the maps. It also includes an abbreviated version of the gazetteer/metadata dataset, and a discussion of historical boundaries.

This unique combination publication is set to become a standard reference resource and is an invaluable tool for all those interested in plotting local area-based data from the past (population, agricultural, statistics, tax data etc.) from the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries.

Please note: this study does not include information on named individuals and would therefore not be useful for personal family history research.

This dataset contains GIS maps of the historical urbanization of Hong Kong at 12 timeslices from 1845-2000 (1845, 1888, 1895, 1913, 1938, 1945, 1952, 1961, 1975, 1984, 1995, and 2000). These maps were compiled through classification of historical map material, photographs, paintings, and contemporary textual accounts. The maps describe the land cover of the historical urban core of the territory of Hong Kong: Victoria City on Hong Kong Island, and the Kowloon Peninsula on the mainland. Urban form is described in terms of the Local Climate Zones (LCZ) scheme presented by Stewart & Oke (2012).

The dataset is currently in the format of a QGIS archive, but other file formats will be made available in the future and can be requested from the authors at any time.

For further details on the process of generating the maps and their application, please see Yee and Kaplan (2022).

Yee, M., & Kaplan, J. O. (2022). Drivers of urban heat in Hong Kong over the past 116 years. Urban Climate. doi:10.1016/j.uclim.2022/101308

Stewart, I. D., & Oke, T. R. (2012). Local Climate Zones for Urban Temperature Studies. Bulletin of The American Meteorological Society, 93(12), 1879-1900. doi:10.1175/bams-d-11-00019.1

Flight paths of drone surveys used to capture imagery for the Aug. 31, 2024 Oliver Lake and South Gillies, ON tornadoes. Ground survey conducted Sep. 5-6, 2024. DJI Mavic Air 2S performed 16 flights. Please note drones are also used for scouting the initial area of interest using a live view on the controller, meaning that some flight paths may not be associated with any imagery.View survey summary map here

Data has been created from hosted feature service (https://mapping.gw.govt.nz/arcgis/rest/services/GW/NRPMap_P_operative/MapServer). It has been shared to the Open Data Portal. Schedule F4: Sites with significant indigenous biodiversity values in the CMASites were identified with existing information and expert opinionandusing the criteria in Policy 23 of the Regional Policy Statementfor the Wellington Region and contained in more detail in:MacDiarmidet al (2012); Oliver & Beaglehole (2014); Todd et al (2014). MacDiarmid A, Nelson W, Gordon D, Bowden D, Mountjoy J and Lamarche G. (2012),Sites of significance for indigenous marine biodiversity in the Wellington region. Report prepared for Greater Wellington Regional Council by NIWA.Oliver M, Beaglehole J. (2014),Coastal sites and habitats with significant indigenous biodiversity values in the Wellington region: Technical memo to support Schedules F4 and F5 of the draft Natural Resources Plan.Todd M, Kettles H, Graeme C, Sawyer J, McEwan A, Adams L. (2014),Estuarine systems in the lower North Island: ranking of significance, current status and future management options. Department of Conservation, Wellington (in prep).