Hmmm ... fascinating. More of a triangulation pillaroid, i.e. something that resembles a trig pillar but is not. Is the pillar in a suitable location, with a...
Looks suspiciously like the concrete blocks my father-in-law used to cast and put on the roadside verge to stop the trucks from damaging the water pipe and...
Richard, in the latest issue of Sheetlines you mention and provide an image of a postcard showing the grave monument of the victim of a criminal murder and its...
Iain Taylor
mapman@...
Dec 6, 2005 3:05 pm
1971
I have been sent the following two maps by someone interested in finding out something about them. I was unable to provide much information. Could anyone...
There is nothing very remarkable about these: they are examples of flat OS sheets, which were only available in this form from OS, being diseccted and covered...
Richard Oliver
R.R.Oliver@...
Dec 8, 2005 10:03 am
1973
Hi Folks, I wonder if anyone can point be at some resources about the Map Grid used for the Channel Islands (Bailiwick Islands)? In particular I'm looking for...
The Grid used on Channel Islands mapping is the UTM (Universal Transverse Mercator) grid, a NATO standard since the early 1950s. R.O. ... the Channel Islands...
rroliver
R.R.Oliver@...
Dec 9, 2005 10:24 pm
1975
Barry, According to my 1988 OS 1:25k 'Official Leisure Map' of Jersey, the grid is the UTM grid zone 30 Central Meridian 3d W (International Spheroid / ...
... jo.kirkham@... ... please email me (or her) offline. ... I am involved in a three-year multidisciplinary study of Medieval Rye with the Romney Marsh...
Peter Stubbs
pstubbs@...
Dec 13, 2005 8:58 am
1977
I am communicating separately with Jo Kirkham, but as far as I know there is no extant 1:500 characteristic sheet applicable to the 1870s. Anyone who has my...
Richard Oliver
R.R.Oliver@...
Dec 13, 2005 9:04 am
1978
This message has been posted to: lis-maps, carto-soc, ordnancemaps, maphist Dear Colleagues At the Spring 2002 meeting of BRICMICS (the British and Irish...
Just thought I'd let you all know about the Historical Maps series we've recently produced - Old Series OS maps re-scaled and re-projected to match the...
Apologies for cross-posting Dear colleagues I am delighted to announce that the Map Curators' Group Special Issue (volume 42, number 3) of The Cartographic...
Whilst conducting a small group on a guided walk in Delamere Forest recently, we descended on (yes - descended on, albeit slightly) a somewhat forlorn trig...
In Harley's 'Ordnance Survey Maps: a descriptive manual', OS 1975, Harley notes that the Old-Series one-inch sheets for northern England were projected on the...
Tinho da Cruz
dacruz@...
Dec 20, 2005 1:21 pm
1984
I was saddened to read on Tinho's post that Brian Adams has passed away. He will be greatly missed....
Information about the Delamere meridian may also be found in my book "Ordnance Survey small-scale maps: indexes 1801-1998" (published by David Archer in 1999)....
Roger Hellyer
roger.hellyer@...
Dec 20, 2005 7:57 pm
1986
I'm grateful for the replies on the Delamere meridian. I do in fact possess a copy of Roger's book but had overlooked the introductory section as I usually...
This is indeed sad news. Brian had a unique knowledge of Ordnance Survey datums and projections from the pre-OSGB36 period and I am saddened I will not get the...
I too am very saddened to hear of Brian's death. I had a short conversation with him as the Charles Close AGM in May and will treasure it a fond and happy...
I have just acquired Timeline sheet 198 'Brighton & Lewes' (or should that be 'Brighthelmstone & Lewes'?) covering the area of the modern Landranger and, as a...
I have just seen this group, Yahoo does hide things well. I may be a little to one side of most members, my interest in the OS began early in 1943 when I was...
... Dear Peter, Your experience in map production is becoming rarer. You may well find something of interest if you try the ChARLES CLOSE SOCIETY web site....
chris board
c.board-alumni@...
Dec 29, 2005 8:39 pm
1992
There can be few OS or other map series on 'arbitary' sheet lines of this sort where improvement is not possible! One improvement made on the Yorks coast, at ...
rroliver
R.R.Oliver@...
Dec 30, 2005 6:31 pm
1993
My father was a cartographer in NW India in the 2nd World War, and I wish I had more to tell, but he never went in to depth on the subject. He was an Engineer...
J.Russell I would think that your father was transferred to IE Survey who worked out of Dhera Dun and would have been concerned with maps for the operations in...
Thanks to the Ordnance Maps respondee. Another person has emailed me with an identical suggestion about the map origin and asked about service locations in...
