Talk:Alexandra Park Racecourse

Map
Where do people get those lovely map extracts from old OS maps? It would be fantastic, rights permitting, to have a map extract showing the layout. DBaK (talk) 21:43, 29 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Pinging as I have the impression that he knows about this. Apologies if not appropriate. Cheers DBaK (talk) 22:26, 29 September 2019 (UTC)
 * , if you click on the coordinates at the top of the page you get taken to the Geohack page, which lists all sorts of map sources. For OS maps, the one I use is the National Library of Scotland (NLS) which has OS maps from multiple periods stitched together into continuous coverage at various scales. They are all out of copyright. They try to assert copyright for the scans and reproduction of some of them, but Wikipedia does not recognise scanning an out of copyright image as creating new copyright. The are two sets to check: Great Britain and England (or Scotland). Depending on which series they were originally published under, some map series are in one set, in the other or in both sets. I just note the original map number, take a screen grab at a good zoom and upload to Commons using the  tag. Another useful site is  which links to multiple map sites including the NLS and has some really old stuff. You can enter a location and it will show you a panel of all of the maps from different sources that cover that place. The OS maps on the NLS start about 1860. For an alternative for 1860s-1870s London, the Stanford Map of London at  has some very nice full colour images at a large size (there's other stuff on the same site) and the  Reynolds Map at  also allows a deep zoom, though it needs the small panes to be stitched together in image editing software.--DavidCane (talk) 07:58, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
 * you lovely lovely person – what an amazing and useful reply! Thank you so much. I will have a look at all the above. Best wishes DBaK (talk) 09:01, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Happy to help. Have fun.--DavidCane (talk) 20:43, 30 September 2019 (UTC)