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I realise that my question isn't directly OS related but I don't know of another forum where there are so many map experts so her goes. My love (obsession?) of...
Put bluntly, from the point of view of evidence one way or the other in rights of way cases, most commercial maps are fit only for the recycling bin! This may...
rroliver
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Feb 7, 2004 10:20 am
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When you say that Cary's maps were " largely derivative " - derived from what or whom and how do we know that ? John Andrews ... From: rroliver To:...
On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 07:05:15 -0000 John Andrews <jonand@...> ... - They were derived from the best available county surveys. This is a matter of...
Richard Oliver
R.R.Oliver@...
Feb 9, 2004 10:21 am
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Brian, I recently organised a training session in Dorset where the legal RoW officer from Dorset CC presented on the process of making Definitive Map...
Thnaks for the honest response Richard! Much food for thought although it will save me a few quid as I defintely won't be buying any more old Geographia maps...
Jonathan I was at that training session as you know - a good event and thanks for organising it! In the main the commercial map makers were trying to portray...
Brian, Sorry, I didn't realise you were at the meeting! Although there are lots of inclosure maps to look through the nice thing about them is that if you find...
This topic is straying some way from the normal subject matter of the group, but there is a great big caveat about inclosure award evidence that ought to be...
Hi group, I have a query and I think you would be the right people to help, I am trying to find the definition of an 'area brace' the 'S' shaped symbol used on...
Area Braces are used to "brace together" the various segments of an area "parcel" that are included in the parcel number and its published area. For instance,...
There is a good and full account of the use of braces on 1:2500 OS mapping on pages 56 - 58 of 'Ordnance Survey maps - a descriptive manual', by J B Harley and...
Alan Bowring
alan.bowring@...
Feb 12, 2004 8:35 am
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The answers probably not simple but when did the 7th series cover design change 1. from the unlaminated to laminated red & white covers? 2. and from the...
Lamination was introduced about March-April 1966; the all-red design came in about March 1969. So far as OS were concerned, on both occasions there was a...
Richard Oliver
R.R.Oliver@...
Feb 17, 2004 3:47 pm
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Richard Simpler than I thought. Thank you Trefor ... design ... clean ... bookshops ... folded ... things ... sheet ... issue. ... Society...
The Ordnance Survey summary lists have been updated and may be found at www.watsonlv.addr.com/os-maps.htm . Regards Lez Watson [Non-text portions of this...
Early large-scale maps can be found in coloured states; for example the main roads in light sienna and brick-built buildings in light carmine. Were such...
I have been sent a photocopy of a sheet which has the appearance of a key to early OS maps. It has a British Museum date stamp 25 FE 54 and somebody has given...
It sounds as though it is either for the 1-inch or for the 6-inch. How big is it? And does it include the specimen name #Canterbury' in upright letters? R.O. ...
Richard Oliver
R.R.Oliver@...
Feb 25, 2004 8:38 am
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Very difficult to say how big - as the print is so small that it must have been reduced, but no sign of the name Canterbury. There is the name `CLAUGHTON' in...
AHA - this sounds like the one designed for the early 6-inch map. It is rather more applicable, if at all, to the early 6-inch mapping of 1841-55, when 6-inch...
Richard Oliver
R.R.Oliver@...
Feb 25, 2004 10:21 am
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The colours were applied by hand, using stencils, so occasionally an 'out of register' effect is obtained. The work was carried out by OS, using low-paid...
Richard Oliver
R.R.Oliver@...
Feb 25, 2004 10:24 am
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Many thanks. John A ... From: Richard Oliver To: ordnancemaps@... Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 10:25 AM Subject: Re: [ordnancemaps]...
I understand that at some point, the 1:25 000 First series lost its 'provisional' tag. Can anyone shed any light on when this was, and why? -- Ed Fielden...
The change took place officially in 1968; publication of the Second Series had started in 1965, and redesignating the predecessors as 'First Series' presemably...
rroliver
R.R.Oliver@...
Feb 27, 2004 10:34 am
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Thank you, Richard, for that very useful info. It must be the case, then, that some early second series sheets had 'non-house-style' covers. If so, which...
From the OS Annual Report for the year 1855-56 "All large maps are greatly improved by colours, to clearly distinguish the houses from the courts or gardens...
Bill Batchelor
bill.batchelor@...
Feb 27, 2004 7:01 pm
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I presume Bill, that the average cost to the OS for employing those juvenile unfortunates was one penny one farthing per map sheet and the Survey made a profit...
iain taylor
mapman@...
Feb 27, 2004 7:28 pm
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Bill notes a much-quoted (by me, at least) extract from the OS report, but for those interested in this matter the start point should be Ian Mumford's ...
Yolande Hodson
y.hodson@...
Feb 28, 2004 10:35 am
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" From the OS Annual Report for the year 1855-56" This and the discussion about the colouring of large-scale maps of the period have left me feeling rather...
