{"id":155,"date":"2018-02-28T09:00:40","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T09:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/?p=155"},"modified":"2025-06-05T12:00:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T11:00:55","slug":"fancy-yourself-as-the-next-sherlock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/fancy-yourself-as-the-next-sherlock\/","title":{"rendered":"Fancy yourself as the next Sherlock?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What comes into your head, when someone says \u2018maps\u2019? I think we often presume that if we aren\u2019t studying geography, earth sciences, archaeology or architecture for instance then they aren\u2019t for us. But think again! Maps can be applied to a variety of different ways in research and we have put together a <a href=\"http:\/\/libguides.ncl.ac.uk\/maps\">Maps Resource Guide<\/a> to explain what resources we have and potentially how they can be used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/libguides.ncl.ac.uk\/maps\">The Maps Guide<\/a> outlines the different ways you can access both physical and online maps and gives you an overview of how you can use our online <a href=\"https:\/\/libguides.ncl.ac.uk\/maps\/digimaproam\">Digimap ROAM<\/a> subscription.\u00a0 With this tool, you can <strong>not only get up-to-date OS Maps, but also historic maps which can help track both infrastructure development, as well as social and environmental changes too<\/strong>. And if you want to directly compare different-aged maps against each other, Digimap lets you toggle between the two on your screen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Thematic maps<\/strong> <strong>and a database of case studies<\/strong> to see how Digimaps have been applied to research can also be found on the <a href=\"https:\/\/libguides.ncl.ac.uk\/maps\/thematic\">Maps Guide<\/a>. Here is just a taster to whet your appetite:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Mapping the victims of Jack the Ripper using Historic Roam<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Conducting a national fox survey using Environment Roam<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Studying garden history and landscape in the 18<sup>th<\/sup> Century<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Designing housing in Byker for an Artists in Residence project.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>So\u2026..before you rule out maps as not relevant for your research, why not take a minute and have a look at our <a href=\"http:\/\/libguides.ncl.ac.uk\/maps\">Maps Guide<\/a>\u00a0 to see if there is potentially something for you!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/libguides.ncl.ac.uk\/maps\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1201\" height=\"612\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2018\/02\/maps-topic-guide-screenshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2018\/02\/maps-topic-guide-screenshot.jpg 1201w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2018\/02\/maps-topic-guide-screenshot-300x153.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2018\/02\/maps-topic-guide-screenshot-768x391.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2018\/02\/maps-topic-guide-screenshot-1024x522.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>N.B. If you&#8217;re wanting to be the next Sherlock, just remember you need to plan your investigations in advance and register with Digimap at least 24 hours before you need to start using the resource.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What comes into your head, when someone says \u2018maps\u2019? I think we often presume that if we aren\u2019t studying geography, earth sciences, archaeology or architecture for instance then they aren\u2019t for us. But think again! Maps can be applied to a variety of different ways in research and we have put together a Maps Resource &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/fancy-yourself-as-the-next-sherlock\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fancy yourself as the next Sherlock?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7207,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,101],"tags":[43,44,10,26,46,2,50,27,52,95,53,29,54,55,23,22,56,57,11,30,9,62,63,64,66,67,12,13,100,33,71,34,72,73,74],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources","category-topic-guides","tag-agribusiness","tag-agriculture","tag-archaeology","tag-architecture","tag-biology","tag-business","tag-civil","tag-combhon","tag-countryside","tag-culture-and-heritage","tag-earth","tag-education","tag-eee","tag-electricalnuis","tag-english-language","tag-english-literature","tag-environeng","tag-environsci","tag-art","tag-geography","tag-history","tag-marinesci","tag-marinetech","tag-marinenuis","tag-mecheng","tag-mechnuis","tag-media","tag-music","tag-planning-and-landscape","tag-politics","tag-reneweng","tag-sociology","tag-sustainability","tag-transport","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7207"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7374,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions\/7374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}