OS adopted 'Places of Worship' as policy some 15 or 20 years ago, and
it has been appearing in 1:50,000 and 1:25,000 legends for quite some
years - 10 at least, I'd say.

Richard Oliver

On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 11:32:33 -0300 Iain Taylor <mapman@...>
wrote:

> I noticed in Streetview something different and discovered the OS has
> abolished the label 'churches', 'synagogues' etc. in favour of
> 'places of worship'!
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> Will changes to the specs for 1:50k be far behind?
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> More ammo. for anti-political correctness?
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> iain T.
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> At 10:56 AM +0100 8/29/06, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
> >Quoting John Andrews <jdand@...>:
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> >> Is there OS mapping at any of the larger scales, e. g. 1:10,000 or 1
> >> : 2500, and based on revisions during the past 3-4 years which is
> >> accessible - in any format - to members of the public ?
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> >Using http://www.waterscape.com/map/ , you can zoom in to OS
> >Streetview (1:10,000) mapping which should be fairly fresh.
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> >Richard
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Richard Oliver, B.A., D.Phil., F.B.Cart.S.,
School of Geography, Archaeology & Earth Resources
University of Exeter
Exeter, EX4 4RJ