ABERDEEN-L Archives

Archiver > ABERDEEN > 2008-03 > 1205403766


From: "Kath Petrie" <>
Subject: Re: [ABERDEEN] Aberdeenshire/Banffshire census downloads &RoyalDragoon Guards
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:22:46 -0000
References: <mailman.15777.1205340646.24074.aberdeen@rootsweb.com><001601c884b1$259eefb0$6101a8c0@lynn8o01hdbx6f>


Hi Lynn

>
> I wonder if you could explain a bit about the message below. I clicked on
> the link and it appears that I'd have to download something in order to
> take
> advantage of the site. I'm not familiar with this site--mediamax. Is it
> a
> safe download ? I don't know what "Memory-map" is, but this sounds like
> it
> could be helpful to those of us who are not well acquainted with Scotland
> geography.
>
> From: "Kath Petrie" <>
> Subject: Re: [ABERDEEN] Aberdeenshire/Banffshire census downloads
> New on http://www.mediamax.com/Stuart_Petrie .
> For users of "Memory-map" an overlay with all the parish boundaries for
> Aberdeenshire, Kincardine, Banff, Moray plus all the old Scottish county
> borders. Readme file included.
>
Mediamax is on online file storage site wher you can store up to 25GB of
data for free, with a download limit of 10GB per month and 10MB maximum
file size. (If you pay then the file restrictions are less.)
It is then possible to put certain files into a "hosted" directory which is
open to the public, which gets round the problem of sending huge e-mail
attachments. If you open an account they invite you to download some
software which makes file transfer quicker. I assume its secure! Note: do
file transfers from the website rather from your computer if you do upload
this software. Visitors to your site do not have to upload special software.

Memory-map is not cheap and is marketed for outdoor activities - links to
GPS, 3D terrain views etc. Cosists of 10 CDs containing the 1:50000 OS maps
of northern (or southern) Britain and the 1:250000 map of all Britain. Good
search facility and allows you to draw "walking" tracks which I have used to
draw the parish boundaries which no longer appear on modern maps, but were
on the old 1" to 1m maps available on
http://www.nls.uk/maps/early/os_scotland_popular_lst.html

Hope this helps, Stuart

This thread: