Dear Ed, My interpretation of the wording "invariably used on Bender covers" is that all Bender covers of the Popular edition have this index. Other covers...
Thank you John, for expressing the answer in precisely the words I would have used. However, I suppose authors should always beware of making firm statements....
Yolande Hodson
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Aug 1, 2004 11:18 am
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In the hope of rounding off this exchange: the all-Great Britain index on the back of Popular and (half-inch) covers seems to have come into use sometime in...
Richard Oliver
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Aug 2, 2004 9:39 am
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Historic maps of British seaside towns feature in a new exhibition that opened on Saturday 31st July 2004 and will run to 3rd September. The colourful and...
The usage (and number) of trig symbols seems to change quite markedly between the original printings of these maps and later revisions. The earlier copies have...
I think that the reason for this is that the earlier sheets use stations of the old - fundamentally 19th century - triangulation, whereas the later ones use...
rroliver
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Aug 4, 2004 5:56 pm
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Thank you, chaps, for putting me straight on that one. A simple case of misinterpretation on my part, as usual! :) -- Ed Fielden SP 0161 0123...
The small scale maps summary lists have been updated and may be found at _http://www.watsonlv.addr.com/os-maps.htm_ (http://www.watsonlv.addr.com/os-maps.htm)...
Richard, Many thanks for the reply - the mist is (maybe) starting to clear. I have to keep reminding myself that the retriangulation and the "relevelling" were...
I recently acquired three ?first edition six-inch sheets of the Morecambe Bay area, one of which was composed of the separate sheets for Lancashire and for...
Alan Bowring
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Aug 11, 2004 9:00 pm
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This stands for: Centre of Old Track of Stream. Yo. ... From: "Alan Bowring" <alan.bowring@...> To: <ordnancemaps@...> Sent: Wednesday,...
Yolande Hodson
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Aug 12, 2004 7:30 am
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The August issue of 'Sheetlines' should reach Charles Close Society members within the next week or so. It is accompanied by the annual Almanack with its...
Hi all I recently acquired a 1983 one-inch tourist map of the Cotswolds which is based on four 1:50,000 second series sheets covering the same area (revised...
My thanks to Yo for this. The new CCS Sheetlines contains that article on many further wonderful mereing references of course. I had never realised there was...
Alan Bowring
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Aug 17, 2004 8:06 pm
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... response to a posting to this group a year or two back enquiring as to the meaning of SD adjacent to the summit of Conachair on St Kilda (NA 099003)on...
I am trying to locate a copy of an Ordnance Map used by the local authority planners which they refer to as "Number on Ordnance Survey Part 89" I do not...
Forbes Robertson
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Aug 23, 2004 11:40 pm
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... announces! A bit of page improvement and a new page listing Post-War Road Maps at _http://www.watsonlv.addr.com/os-maps.htm_ ...
Could you assist by providing a chronological reference point ? Any rough date will do, and what about the context of the statement, that would also be...
Yolande Hodson
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Aug 24, 2004 2:32 pm
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I've just come across the 'Media' area of the OS website, and found a nice little image gallery dedicated to the launch of the OS Explorer maps this September....
I don't know if anyone has mentioned here but 1:10000 maps of Wales are now available at the RCAHMW website. Their database is online under the name COFLEIN,...
Can any members comment - preferably based on experience of use - on the relative merits of the various CD-Rom versions on the market ? John Andrews [Non-text...
Might be of interest to the Mr. Andrews and Mr. Wheeler¹s of this world (re essay printed in the latest Sheetlines on 1 inch 7th series covers). I have the...
Apologies to Ian and to everyone else interested, but I have only just returned after three weeks away! Difference between 'triangulation points' and...
Richard Oliver
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Aug 31, 2004 5:02 pm
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Yes, it was standard practice from about 1980 to use 1:50,000 2nd Series material for both fully revised editions of existing titles (North York Moors was the...
Richard Oliver
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Aug 31, 2004 5:22 pm
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Is the use of the acronym 'MLO' on the increase, in respect of its application to 'map-like-object(s)'? I too bemoan the passing of the 1" tourist or...
Alan Bowring
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Aug 31, 2004 8:02 pm
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The 1999 Peak District Edition D was the last all-new one-inch sheet derived from 1:50,000 mapping. The Peak District Edition C had previously been created...
My apologies re Edition D of the Peak District map, which I've never owned and had forgotten about! It is possible that the enlarged type on its predecessor...
