29/10/2024 | Central Government
OS200 Project Team
Rediscovering Ireland’s Ordnance Survey heritage
Two centuries after Ireland became the first whole country in the world to be mapped at a scale of six inches to the mile, ArcGIS Pro is being used to shed light on exactly how this ambitious survey project was carried out. Researchers from the University of Limerick and Queen’s University Belfast have conducted geospatial analysis on thousands of letters, memoirs, name books and other resources from 1824 to 1842 to reveal fresh insight into Ireland’s Ordnance Survey heritage and social and cultural history.
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ArcGIS Pro has made it easy for us to share information across partner institutions and work collaboratively.
Dr Catherine Porter,
Associate Professor of Geography, University of Limerick
We do a lot of presentations for local historical groups, and it’s the visualisations that we have created in ArcGIS Pro that people always want to talk about!
Dr Catherine Porter,
Associate Professor of Geography, University of Limerick
A geographic analysis, produced with ArcGIS Pro, showing the areas surveyed by three primary surveyors between 1830 and 1842