Have had the following query. Hello. I am quite interested in the history of the OS and, in particular, ... Apart from an assortment of bits on specific angles...
Forbes Robertson
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Jan 4, 2005 10:56 pm
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Here is a link to an article written by the presenter of the recent BBC2 series Map Man, which is probably what is being referred to. ...
The Yahoo group "TRIGONOMY" is the best place for this one. This is where all the trigbaggers hang out. There's a trig logging site at http://trigpointing.com/...
You will find all the answers in the official publication 'History of the Retriangulation of Great Britain 1935-1962'. First published by HMSO in 1967;...
Yolande Hodson
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Jan 5, 2005 3:21 pm
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Martyn, I have sent your email to the Ordancancemaps egroup. If anybody can help they will email you directly. ordnancemaps@... ...
pstubbs@...
Jan 6, 2005 2:54 pm
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Apols- I messed up the email to the group - Here is Martyns email address if you can help....
pstubbs@...
Jan 6, 2005 3:03 pm
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Martyn and the list Two very useful books are: World mapping today / R.B. Parry, C.R. Perkins. Edition: 2nd ed. London : Bowker-Saur, c2000. xi, 1064p : ill.,...
Though a brief history might be of interest: * Trigpoints in the modern sense have been in use for surveying since General Roy set up a baseline on Hounslow...
Excellent summary Jack! I can expand on a few points from this, ... I remember reading to begin with during the retrigaulation - the Pillar Man - the person...
Dear all, Five questions relating to the OS One-Inch (1:63,360)Popular editions published for Scotland in the 1920's. 1. The copies I have seen to date all...
... (top left) hand corner of each sheet. - Strictly speaking, a squaring system. This was drawn onto the printing plate, and may shift slightly in position on...
rroliver
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Jan 11, 2005 8:45 am
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Richard, Many many thanks for taking the time to reply to my posting: I'd like to follow up on some of the points you make in your response: 2. I accept...
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 00:01:16 -0000 jamesdargie <Jamesdargie@...> wrote: r being ... Popular into a GIS layer are necessarily too inaccurate to use at...
Richard Oliver
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Jan 12, 2005 9:36 am
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Following the CCS Midlands Group meeting on Thursday where I offered up a new list of 1:50 000 map covers, I've placed the list on the 'my_hosting' area of my...
Hi, ... May I suggest that the owner/moderator of this group uses the option setting to moderate the first message from a new member? This gives you the chance...
Martin and the rest of the group. It is very annoying to get spam from the group. I can't moderate individual messages from members. Up to now anybody can join...
Hi Pete, ... This will make you a lot of extra work and is not very effective - it's impossible to be sure when someone joins if they are genuine. By far the...
Can anyone suggest how I can obtain OS Triglists for specific urban areas ? I'd like to be able to view or interrogate lists which were valid in the 1970s and...
This quiestion was posed to me a little while ago by a librarian in one of our legal deposit ('copyright') libraries. From that discussion I post the following...
Richard Oliver
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Jan 21, 2005 3:59 pm
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I have a number of quotes from OS Annual Reports on the number of new Bench Mark lists made available for sale in a given year, as follows - 1955-56 19,812 BM...
H'm, rather a lot of paper!! The examples which I have seen were either typed and printed on a Gestetner-type duplicator (late 1940s) or else seem to be early ...
Richard Oliver
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Jan 21, 2005 4:46 pm
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This page http://www.osmaps.org/template.cfm?Product_id=33 mentions that they are available for purchase from Superplan Agents, see ...
The problem here, I suspect, is that as with the digital mapping, the Suipperplan Agents will only have CURRENT lists, not superseded ones. R.O. On Fri, 21 Jan...
Richard Oliver
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Jan 22, 2005 11:44 am
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Hi, You might like to visit this web page, which is an official part of the OS website. http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/jsp/mapshop/mapShop.jsp? ...