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Category Archives: Interface
Issues with website
Apologies if you have had trouble accessing our main website A Vision of Britain through Time in the last few days. We’ve been making some technical changes and it seems to have had unexpected consequences. We hope to get normal … Continue reading
Problem with protected download data from Vision of Britain
Apologies if you are having problems with downloading our protected data from A Vision of Britain through Time. We are aware of the problem, and are working on finding the cause. However, our current capacity to sort this kind of … Continue reading
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Planned downtime: Saturday 17th January 2015 9am – 4pm (GMT)
The infrastructure that our sites and services run on is being upgraded. Whilst this is happening the Vision of Britain and related web sites and services will be completely, or partly, unavailable between 9 am and 4 pm on Saturday 17th January … Continue reading
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Starting a long goodbye to .jsp
We went live with a couple of new features today. URL rewriting: If you look at your browser’s address bar, for many pages it will now display a shorter address. For example, the “place page” for Evesham is now: http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/1002 … Continue reading
A page we don’t want you to see …
Touch wood, we have sorted out the problem that caused the new site to crash just a couple of days after it went live, but there will inevitably continue to be occasional “outages” — and Murphy’s Law specifies that they … Continue reading
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Tagged A Vision of Britain through Time, sorry page
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New Expert Search for “places”
This is the first of a series of posts about new features in the site we launched last week. In the previous version of A Vision of Britain through Time, the Expert Search page just linked to various other pages … Continue reading
Vision of Britain 2.5 goes live
We are now running a new version of the web site A Vision of Britain through Time on a new server. There are a lot of changes, and we will be making a whole series of posts about them, but … Continue reading
Another 1,600 places added to A Vision of Britain through Time
This is a particularly big extension, just in time for Christmas. Pretty much all villages of any size are now covered, whether or not any administrative units were named after them. Adding places Adding “places” is not about extending our … Continue reading
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Tagged A Vision of Britain through Time, ecclesiastical units, places
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Error in listing of statistical “rates” fixed
The last time we extended the site’s statistical content, we introduced an error which meant that when you clicked on one of the listed “rates” for a particular theme, you were usually taken to a different rate, at random. This … Continue reading
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Tagged A Vision of Britain through Time, historical statistics
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New ‘Old Maps Online’ project funded by Joint Information Systems Committee
The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) have awarded the University of Portsmouth, and the GB Historical GIS project team, a new grant of £139,900 as part of their JISC Content Programme for 2011-13. The new project is called Old Maps … Continue reading
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Tagged Funding, Great Britain Historical GIS, historical mapping, JISC, Old Maps Online
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