Query received at CCS website from Solomon McLeod solmcleod1987@... Can anyone help ? =================== Hello, My Solomon James McLeod, I am studying...
I passed this topic on to OS and received the following response; "I was rather disappointed to read the critical comments about Ordnance Survey's policies...
I've visited shops in Lichfield, Burton, Derby and Sutton Coldfield to get a LR139 without success. My friend found one in Guildford this week. And why would...
There is very little in print on OS typography: following references are to the bibliography on the Charles Close Society website. The only thing anything like...
Oliver, Richard
R.R.Oliver@...
Oct 20, 2009 10:45 am
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Dear Solomon Get in touch with me if you would like to come over to the Map Department at Cambridge University Library to look at any of the texts, and the...
Whilst looking at the excellent on-line Irish Ordnance Survey mapping site I noticed a number of batteries along the Shannon estuary around which are marked a...
I think these are probably 'WD', or possibly pre-1855 Board of Ordnance, boundary stones, of a sort that are common around older military and ex-military...
Oliver, Richard
R.R.Oliver@...
Oct 30, 2009 9:12 pm
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... Thank you Richard, that helps to put them in context very nicely. Cheers, -- David Kitching http://www.brocross.com fearrmeox adlaž bręgen...
Information from the latest OS catalogue has been added to the summary lists (v4.43) and may be found at http://www.watsonlv.addr.com/os-maps.htm . Regards Lez...
I understand that the Ordnance Survey are to stop printing maps by this time next year, when they move to their new premises. They have put advertisements in...
Dear all Apologies for cross-posting The next Cambridge Seminar in the History of Cartography will be held in the Harrods Room, Emmanuel College, Cambridge CB2...
This is indeed sad, but not entirely surprising - or unprecedented. Some OS quarter-inch and half-inch maps were printed by Waterlows in the autumn of 1914,...
Oliver, Richard
R.R.Oliver@...
Nov 10, 2009 3:32 pm
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I have always thought it a shame when OS stopped selling the paper copies of historical mapping. I bought one map from 'an authorised reseller' to find it £9...
Dear all Apologies for cross posting. The following seminar, to be held in Cambridge on 2 December, may be of interest: Mapping History, People and Ideas:...
Query received on website from Steve Leonard at stevedarlington@... Do you know of any list or book that contains a key to the symbols used on 19^th...
It is not quite clear what is meant by 'symbols on OS maps' - whether (a) on the 6-inch, 1:2500 and larger scales (in which case the answer is 'not really',...
Oliver, Richard
R.R.Oliver@...
Nov 13, 2009 10:00 am
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The CIRCA Trust does have a map drafting text book from the 19th century in its archives I know it contains the rules for contours but will inspect on Tuesday...
Can anyone help, Forbes ... From: Michael Layland [mailto:baytext@...] Sent: 15 November 2009 21:36 To: forbes.robertson@... Subject: Parsons,...
Forbes Robertson
forbes.robertson@...
Nov 15, 2009 10:16 pm
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If you trawl the books of intructions for survey and revision of the large scales you will find quite a selection in these; the British Library also has a...
Yolande Hodson
y.hodson@...
Nov 16, 2009 10:26 am
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I'm just working on the preparation for the paperback version of my book Map Addict (Collins). The aim is to include more illustrations than were in the...
Hi all, There is an interesting article in The Times today - Tim Berners-Lee (founding father of the modern Internet) says that Gordon Brown has promised to...
... AIUI it's mainly large-scale things, particularly administrative boundary data, that are being freed. Detailed mapping, that needs to be accurate and costs...
Dear Nick You should be able to find copies of all OS maps ever produced in the Legal Deposit Libraries which I have listed below. You could view them at the...
What should have happened is that in the course of the 1923 revision ALL features included in the mapping specification should have been surveyed. Certainly...
It is not quite clear whether the extension(s) was/were built in the 1880s or late 1920s/early 1930s! In principle the map should show the house as it was in...
Oliver, Richard
R.R.Oliver@...
Nov 20, 2009 3:35 pm
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Wondering if any here are using, or have tried Ordnance Survey digital maps on their computer. It would seem that a complete set of 1:50,000 can be obtained...
Philip, ... Yes, and I've written a comparison article looking at the main programs for the CTC's Cycle magazine: Tracklogs: http://www.tracklogs.co.uk ...
