Sir Herbert George Fordham : Hertfordshire Maps: a Descriptive Catalogue 1919
For those with a love of old maps and long memories may notice a similarity with Genmaps:
a website which I created at the turn of the Millennium to address the
difficulty of finding antique map images online. Unfortunately: even
when I could locate them: they were mostly in such low definition as to
be of little use: or else they took forever to download. After a few
years my efforts to upgrade the site took a back seat as cancer: major
surgery: and catastrophic earthquakes took their toll: and the host of Freepages: Rootsweb: suffered a major server crash: rescued in part by Ancestry.com.
Meanwhile technology marched ahead with the introduction of high
quality scanners being used to digitize Museum and University map
collections worldwide and posting them online. Two years ago I
resolved to re-create it with a new name: remove all the broken
links and poor quality images from Genmaps and replace them here with
useful
material.
Im not a skilled programmer: so I have tried
to keep things simple. However: even so: most evenings for the last two
years have been taken up in searching: researching:
and indexing. This is no
cartobibliography. There will be errors and I rely on you "out
there" to contact me so that I can correct them.