The Scottish Maps handout for George Caldwell’s talk to the BCGS Scottish Genealogy Group, August 8, 2012 in Burnaby is posted now on the BCGS Eduction Handouts page.

This is a 10 page (.pdf) guide to using the maps available on the National Library of Scotland’s website.

The Saltire, or Saint Andrew’s Cross;
Flag of Scotland.In Scottish Gaelic:
Bratach na h-Alba. Courtesy Wikipedia Commons,
Artist Kbolino.

There are some 44,000 high-resolution zoomable map images of Scotland on the Library’s website; 18,000 of these can be viewed with a new georeferenced search application and the early maps of Scotland on-line can be overlaid on Google Earth using the Library’s Georeferencer pilot application.