[WED]Re: Wedmore roads/tracks

[Mary Jackes]

The entire Somerset maps for 1782 and 1822 are huge, covering many sheets.
I scanned and cropped one bit of Somerset only, centred on Wedmore.  For
the 1782 map, the section was on one sheet - easy.  For the 1822 map, Meare
appeared on another sheet, so I had to cut and paste, but I got things to
line up very well (there is just a faint line across at the join).  Because
the 1782 tracks are only faintly delineated, I had to scan at 400 ppi.
This makes the images a bit hefty, 1423K and 1358K.  Although I originally
proposed to Michael that he could post them on the web, I am now a bit
dubious.  I enlarged them to make them easy to read. It would be difficult
to post them, unless Michael is very clever as a webmaster.

I have (very carefully) cropped each of them exactly the same way, so that
one can check on roads from one map to the next.  The width is 17.8 cms (7
ins) on both, and the height of the 1782 map is 25cm and of the other,
26.3cm (the 1782 map was done by one William Day who was not really a
professional surveyor, so no doubt the scale is a little off).

So the maps are resized to be nearly exactly the same, in order that they
can be seen together and compared for changes in the roads. They are set
now for 8.5 by 11 paper for North Americans, so one of them wouldn't work
on quarto (8 by 10.25, right?) - could be printed on folio though. 

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If you want them zipped, I could zip them, of course, for people with WinZIP.

Mary Jackes
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