Thankyou everyone who replied:

Bob Young, Sheila Quan, Martin Hodder, Harry Bell and Andrei Veselov.

The gist of the replies is that there is a problem when using rasters in
seamless tables where each raster image requires a slightly different
rotation/skew.

A quick fix is to use the individual raster tables instead of the seamless
tables. A better, but more expensive/time consuming solution would be to
rectify and resample the rasters so they match the projection of the vector
data. Suggestions for software to do this included (quote from Martin's
e-mail):

"The is a relatively cheap raster rectification tool called Rastools -
Robert
Edwards who sometimes contributes to the list. If my memory serves I think
it was about $500 USD.

"for more info have a look at
http://home.earthlink.net/~edwardsrg/MapTools/RasTools.html"

I'd like to add that you could rectify the images in Arc/Info as well -
since we use Arc here, the additional cost isn't a problem!

For people looking for an alternative to the Landmark maps, Harry Bell
suggested:

"...a company called Sitescope is
offering, as far as I can tell, the same maps, but at a better resolution,
and a bit cheaper than Landmark.  So far, they are only selling the
un-registered maps, but I have spoken to one of their reps who said they
would be able to offer registered data in a couple of months.  He did not
tell me the price at the time....

"Check:
http://www2.sitescope.co.uk/products/historicmaps.htm
for more info."

Anyway, thankyou everyone again, and have a good weekend.

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David Booth
Senior GIS Officer
Merseyside Information Service





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David Booth
Senior GIS Officer
Merseyside Information Service



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