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...
In Canada this kite has recently been flown by the Govt. (my former employer!) which may be of interest to UK map users. Iain Taylor Halifax, NS CASLIS...
Iain Taylor
mapman@...
Jan 3, 2006 5:55 pm
1998
These are updated again and can be found, as usual, at http://www.watsonlv.addr.com/os-maps.htm . The paper maps are very quiet at the moment, except for the...
Lez tells us that 'the paper maps are very quiet at the moment, except for the Land Access Explorers marching north'. I've just recently acquired 'access'...
Some years ago, an organisation called Sitescope published a series of CDs which, county by county, contained scans of all County sheet- line six inch maps of...
One small correction, I think: Landmark do indeed co-operate closerly with OS, but they are not a 'branch' of OS! R.O. On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 22:53:30 -0000...
Richard Oliver
R.R.Oliver@...
Jan 13, 2006 10:42 am
2002
... Indeed: they're actually part of the Daily Mail group. http://www.landmarkinfo.co.uk/corp/aboutus.jsp?id=411 (I think, on balance, I'd rather be part of...
Richard Fairhurst
richard@...
Jan 13, 2006 10:58 am
2003
Sorry to be a damp squib, but I feel I must point out that such copying CDs is an infringement of copyright. Though the originals are out of copyright, the...
Tinho da Cruz
dacruz@...
Jan 13, 2006 12:47 pm
2004
Does anyone know the origin of the term 'Vanessa tube' for the round triangulation pillars constructed in the later part of the Retriangulation in highland...
Thank you to those of you who replied to my previous posting. I have established that Landmark have (of course) retained an archive of the complete Sitescope...
Something I have puzzled over for years, can anyone show even a glimmer of light on this. In November of 1944, when I was an RE Survey Photowriter, I was shut ...
I've noticed a couple of odd errors in Google Maps, so there are probably many more; has anybody else noticed any ? The names of Woodford Station (at Woodford...
It seems that around three months ago, Google changed its map provider: One or other of these gained, and the other lost - I cannot remember which - Navtech...
Might it not be the case that some of these 'howlers' are actually deliberate, so as to pick up on copyright fraud? The OS put deliberate errors into their...
You would hope that fraud-detector fingerprints wouldn't actually compromise the reliability of the map, but be additional small tell-tales rather than wrong...
Subject: Hounslow Heath Baseline of 1791. Dear sir ... I was wondering where I might find information about this baseline. John Marjot. Marjot J Mr ...
Peter Stubbs
pstubbs@...
Jan 25, 2006 8:27 am
2013
It's a bit difficult to know how to start this, I'm not that used to asking for stuff. Anyway here goes... I've posted once previously about a site I'm working...
Do we have anyone who has expertise about first-edition six-inch maps, especially od Yorkshire and Lancashire? I am having difficulty sorting out the various...
FOURTH SERIES??? What 'Fourth Series'? OS never produced suich a thing! DISCUSS!!!!!!!! Richard Oliver On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 13:19:42 -0000 Andrew Rowbottom ... ...
Richard Oliver
R.R.Oliver@...
Jan 31, 2006 9:19 am
2016
Try my OS maps: a concise guide: details on CCS website. In great haste, Richard Oliver On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 22:56:34 -0000 drneilclifton ... Richard Oliver,...
Richard Oliver
R.R.Oliver@...
Jan 31, 2006 9:21 am
2017
Richard, scrolling back through my memory to days training as a Photowriter in 1943. Every type of land division for local government purposes was indicated by...
Well, to be fair, they did produce about 5 sheets (covering Eastern Kent) of a '1-inch Fourth Edition' - a small sheet series - around 1911/12. But of course...
... Sorry, I was trying to refer to the "The Ordnance Survey Popular Edition One Inch Map of England and Wales" which came before the "Fifth Edition". You are...
Anyone know which OS map (1805-19)of London is being given away with subs. for History Today? I would guess first ed. one inch? If so what standard is the...
Iain Taylor
mapman@...
Feb 1, 2006 5:38 pm
2021
This is my first posting, and I hope someone can help me with a query! Some 35 years ago when I was a frequent user of the Children's section of the local...
Don't know about those books, but I do remember a similar thing which my son had in about 1969/70ish which featured a child/children travelling by car. It ...
David I strongly suspect that the book in which the children walk across the countryside is "The map that came to life", written by H J Deverson and ...
Gtcornell@...
Feb 2, 2006 9:29 pm
2024
The first book was called 'The Map that Came to Life' and was published by Oxford University Press in 1948, reprinted often until at least 1963. John and...
