Re-use of images on this website

Commercial, non-commercial, educational and private use of some map images

Exceptions

There are three main categories of copyright protection relevant to maps:

Re-use of images on this website

We encourage re-use of the Library's map images based on certain conditions of use.

However, we do not have complete rights over all images on this website. As set out under Exceptions , some images may not be re-used for certain purposes, such as commercial re-use.

The specific Re-use licence relating to each image on our website is shown in our standard map image viewer , to the upper-right, beneath the keyword search box (as illustrated). These specific re-use licences (shown in bold below - for example CC-BY ) are explained more fully under each licence.

Read our definition of commercial re-use .

These terms are specific to our Map Images website .

Please ensure you read this page fully before re-using map images.

CC-BY . You are welcome to use some images displayed on the Map Images website for commercial, non-commercial, educational and private purposes under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) licence .

Use is conditional on provision of attribution. Please apply the credit line 'Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland' wherever you re-use map images. If you create derivative work, the documentation of your work must contain this attribution.

For online publications, we request that your attribution includes a link to our Map Images website .

2. Exceptions

The terms above do not extend to:

Any material which is identified as being the copyright of a third party . This includes modern map layers from Google, Bing, Ordnance Survey and OpenStreetMap used as backdrop layers in our geographic viewers. Authorisation to reproduce such material must be obtained from the copyright holders concerned.

Any content that has separate licensing terms specified.

The following more general categories:

James Hutton Institute (Macaulay) soil mapping . CC-BY-NC-SA (Hutton) . Please contact the James Hutton Institute for permission to re-use these maps.

Land Use Consultants - Light Pollution / Dark Skies, 2016 . CC-BY (LUC) . Please use the following acknowledgement when using the data: Earth Observation Group, NOAA National Geophysical Data Center. Data processed by Land Use Consultants on behalf of the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England .

Land Utilisation Survey, Great Britain, 1931-35 . CC-BY-NC-SA (LUS) . Re-useable for non-commercial purposes under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC-BY-NC-SA) licence. Commercial use is prohibited.

Second Land Utilisation Survey, Great Britain, ca. 1960-75 . CC-BY-NC-SA (2nd LUS) . Re-useable for non-commercial purposes under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC-BY-NC-SA) licence. Commercial use is prohibited.

Lovat Highland Estates' mapping . CC-BY-NC-SA (Lovat) . Re-useable for non-commercial purposes under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC-BY-NC-SA) licence. Please contact Lovat Highland Estates Ltd , Lovat Estates Office, Beauly, Inverness-shire, IV4 7DA over any requests for commercial re-use of these maps.

Sutherland Collection . CC-BY . Please contact us at [email protected] and we would be happy to forward on any re-use requests. Re-use of these maps requires the permission of Sutherland Estates, Duke St, Golspie KW10 6RP, c/o Bell Ingram Highland .

Yale Centre for British Art . CC-BY (Yale) . Re-useable under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) licence. Please credit the Yale Centre for British Art in any onward re-use.