GB1900: Engaging the Public in Very Large Scale Gazetteer Construction from the Ordnance Survey “County Series” 1:10,560 Mapping of Great Britain

Semantic" gazetteers should form a geographical "backbone" to our knowledge of the past, but they need to contain toponyms appearing in specific sources, to be under open copyrights and to be large, representing all the features of interest.Academic gazetteer projects are achieving the first two goals but are generally either limited to main settlements or cover small areas.The GB1900 project is creating a new spinal gazetteer of Britain from the Ordnance Survey's County Series 1:10,560 second edition mapping from circa 1900.It will be under Creative Commons licensing.To date