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Want more? The following sites have been hand-picked for your viewing pleasure. They are also handily split into sections, and the sites in each section are now alphabetically listed for your perusal.
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UK roads
Regional interest
Specialist interest
International
Campaigning
Government
Motoring
Mapping
An interest in roads and an interest in maps go together hand in hand, and luckily there's an abundance of free mapping sites showing the whole UK in all its bright, clear, zoomable glory.
Google Maps
Second generation online maps, with smooth scrolling and zooming and extremely high resolution coverage of large parts of the UK in satellite photography.
Multimap
My own personal favourite online map - includes very clear mapping from Collins road atlases, OS Landranger maps and A-Z street plans depending on the zoom level. Also has aerial photography from GetMapping.
New Popular Edition Maps
Take a look at Great Britain as it looked in the Ordnance Survey's New Popular Edition maps of the 1940s. It offers a snapshot of the country immediately before the motorway age.
Old Maps
Coverage of the whole of the UK with Ordnance Survey maps more than 100 years old. If nothing else it's just fascinating to see how things used to look!
Ordnance Survey
The people who make the maps everyone else gets their data from. You can now use the Get-a-Map tool on their site to see an Ordnance Survey map of any location in the UK at any scale they publish.
Streetmap
Not as nicely designed or integrated as Multimap, but splits the map image into sections so if you want to stitch a large map image together it's easy to do. Also handy if Multimap goes down, which it can do occasionally with heavy traffic.
Via Michelin
An alternative view of the world from Michelin, the French motoring company which covers much of the world with its own distinctive maps.
