mapco.net - is this free, wonderful old map site still functioning?

[Trishanne]

Thanks for the link Sarah, I have added it to my favourites.

[Greenland]

Thank you Sarah for the link you included in your response.  It is a good site too with many, many maps.  I was hoping to use a close up of an 1860s Mapco.net map of the streets of Southwark to compare a street layout with a modern map.  Normally when wanting to make a comparison, I have always gone to the Mapco website which provided the excellent means for doing so.

It looks as though 'Midase' has interpreted the error message correctly:  The site is either no longer available, is being upgraded or has been moved to another server.  I am not sure whether this means it will be available in the future under a similar name so that it is clearly identifiable.   Thank you too for your thoughts on this 'Midase'.

Trishanne, I too have Sarah's link in my Favourites and agree, it is most useful.

I am hoping to track down Mapco again though, I think it is hard to beat for people with London ancestors.  Thank you all.

[Koromo]

There are some maps at http://www.motco.com/map/ including a 6 inches to the mile edition of a London map (1861 with Southwark).  I do find that the site navigation is not very intuitive and it aways confuses me.

Meanwhile, I'm crossing fingers, etc. in the hope that mapco.net resurfaces soon.

[Greenland]

Thank you Koromo, that has been most helpful.  It was a little difficult to navigate on the site, as you suggested, but I it has helped me to achieve my objective so that is great.  Many thanks - I have added this to my Favourites.

[bugbear]

My favourite (by far *) source of historic London maps is currently showing errors on all pages, including the home page.

Anyone know anything?

 BugBear

(*) in fact the only other one I use is London Ancestor's boundary commission maps, 1885

http://www.londonancestor.com/maps/maps.htm


Topics merged , please see previous posts.

[sarah]

I found an email address for Mapco yesterday, so sent a little message lets hope we hear back with some good news.

Regards

Sarah

[Greenland]

Sarah, yes, let us hope we have a positive response from Mapco.  Thanks for taking this on.

Bugbear, you too are missing Mapco!  It really was a fantastic interactive resource for the genealogist.  Thank you for your link to the maps on LondonAncestor.

[bugbear]

Sarah, yes, let us hope we have a positive response from Mapco.  Thanks for taking this on.

Bugbear, you too are missing Mapco!  It really was a fantastic interactive resource for the genealogist.  Thank you for your link to the maps on LondonAncestor.

You might find this interesting:

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=666647.msg5117872#msg5117872

Although I think this:

http://maps.nls.uk/os/london-1890s/index.html?

makes it unimportant.

 BugBear

[Greenland]

Bugbear, the National Library of Scotland map is fantastic and has been of great help to me in the last couple of months since I became aware of it and would recommend it to anybody doing London research for that time period.  However, London has changed and the fantastic thing about Mapco was that it allowed one to see the city's growth and changes over hundreds of years through its map collection.  You are obviously a techie  and while I much admire your teaser map, I am not confident that I would be able to achieve a similar result even after downloading the appropriate software!

Thank you for your contribution to this topic.  I am sure others will find it of interest.