Help viewing England & Wales Gazetteer Maps (once logged in)
| Viewing the maps |
If you use Internet Explorer and have downloaded the AlternaTIFF viewer, the maps will display automatically within your browser, and you will be able to zoom in to view the map details. Otherwise you can view the map images with most image viewers, including Kodak's Imaging for Windows®, which is provided with Microsoft Windows.
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| Trouble viewing the maps |
If you find that your viewer does not open the map files it may be because, unfortunately, some image viewers do not interpret TIFF images correctly (they don't expect TIFF files to contain JPEG compressed images, although this is quite normal). However, the following (free or shareware) viewers work fine:
www.alternatiff.com, www.irfanview.com
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| Available maps |
Click here for available counties and town plans.
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| For the technically minded |
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The maps are JPEG compressed, with the compression factor chosen to keep the files as small as possible to minimise download times while still providing legibility of the fine detail on the maps. The JPEG images are encapsulated as TIFF files rather than JPEG files. This is to avoid the maps being opened automatically within your browser; Internet Explorer and Netscape have no "zoom" function and the lack of this makes the map images difficult to read.
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