Making historic maps larger

gaiscioch

Not sure if there's a better forum than this but would anybody know of a company/person who could enlarge historic maps (or indeed historic images like this) so that I could put them on a classroom wall. They do not necessarily need to be as big as the large world maps, but A2/A1/A0 should suffice. I'm thinking of enlarging maps like these:

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/dublin_1610_1896.jpg

http://dublindecoded.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/dublin-1610.jpg

Any of these: http://tinyurl.com/hhqtd6v

Thanks.

slowburner

gaiscioch wrote: »

Not sure if there's a better forum than this but would anybody know of a company/person who could enlarge historic maps (or indeed historic images like this) so that I could put them on a classroom wall. They do not necessarily need to be as big as the large world maps, but A2/A1/A0 should suffice. I'm thinking of enlarging maps like these:

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/dublin_1610_1896.jpg

http://dublindecoded.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/dublin-1610.jpg

Any of these: http://tinyurl.com/hhqtd6v

Thanks.

You can buy A1 sheets of the Ordnance Survey Historic maps (c. 1838 - 1911) and other collections are available to buy here.

tabbey

Lots of people zoom into online maps and print them. But this means the scale - 1 to 10,560 or whatever is entirely misleading.

my3cents

Why not make it a class project?

Get them to make their own map. Hang a suitable size piece of paper on the wall and then use a computer attached to a projector to a project the picture on the wall then just its just a matter of tracing it out.

Second thoughts difficult to do with a group

Almost any modern sign writers will have the capacity to print that those out any size you want. Even a lot of chemists that do camera prints have a wide format printer and will print up to A0. Cost will be the main problem followed by the quality of the original. Using those jpegs may not give very good enlarged results.