I was glancing at my OS 1:250,000 for South West England and was struck by something not previously spotted; in the text block giving details of ferry sailings...
O/S datum benchmarks Will anybody who can help Richard Porch please email him directly as he is not a member if the group. NOTE that the attachment he...
Peter Stubbs
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Mar 7, 2006 9:07 am
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Hi, I would suggest that Richard joins Yahoo Group Trigonomy. There are many there would could probably expand on this. ...
... The arrow looks far too crude to be an OS benchmark and, even if it was, it would need to point to a rivet or some such reference point (which does not...
BTW The Explorer list has loads of amendments to the new 'Active' editions: namely changes of quite a number of edition codes to bar reprints - more in line...
I agree. This image is certainly NOT an OS Bench mark. The arrow is not defined well enough and the "legs" of the arrow should be of equal length. Also, as...
Hi again, I am looking into the possibility of bringing a group of college students to the UK and the Netherlands for a two-week intensive map class. I have a...
Greetings, I joined the list a few days ago, and thought I should send a brief message introducing myself. I'm posting from San Francisco, where I've started...
Re Iain Taylor's question to the Yahoo group about History Today's London maps: I'm Brian Quinn from Timeline Maps and we publish this for HT. The map is based...
Dear all I have had the following family-history enquiry: "In 1885 my grandfather was a T9a, whatever that means, in the Ordnance Survey. From then until his...
I am sceptical of any 'answer' emerging for 'T9a', and even if this was solved there is certainly nothing which would enable an OS member of staff's movements,...
R.R.Oliver@...
Mar 16, 2006 7:43 am
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I agree with this interpretation - this is what I suggested, Anne, when I was at CUL yesterday. I take Richard's independent view as some support for what...
Yolande Hodson
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Mar 16, 2006 9:46 am
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BBC News Online have an interesting article about strands of DNA being made to form a miniscule 'map' at a scale of 1 : 200 trillion! ...
Greetings, My name is Graham Lewis and I am currently an environmental science student at Kingston University. I am interested to know if the trees detailed...
... You could usefully consult J.B. Harley's The Ordnance Survey and Land Use Mapping. No 2 of the Historical Geography Research Series. Norwich, Geobooks....
chris board
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Mar 17, 2006 6:05 pm
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In principle, all individual trees in hedgerows should be shown on these maps, subject to (a) omission when they would appear too crowded together, and (b)...
R.R.Oliver@...
Mar 18, 2006 3:43 pm
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Anyone who is interested in this, should keep an eye on Ed Parsons web 'blog' - www.edparsons.com All in all, a most excellent read for those of us interested...
Philip and others, Some of Ed Parsons' blog makes interesting reading. However, some of his views are less than enlightened. With respect to the latter, I...
From my long gone mapping days; one tree= a tree, two trees = a copse, three trees = a wood. But of course that was in the days when the OS was RE run and a...
All, I have realised that there is an error in my facts below that in fairness to the OS, I feel I must correct. I the third paragraph, i referred to OS data...
"From my long gone mapping days; one tree= a tree, two trees = a copse, three trees = a wood. But of course that was in the days when the OS was RE run and a...
In the '70s a friend who had worked at OS for years told me that before 'lettapress'? when trees were individually drawn, draughtsmen would draw the odd...
... Were there perhaps OS cartographers by the name of Michael Wood (as in the services on the M5) or John Street (as in several road names around the country)...
Nicholas Verge, like Ed Parsons, makes for interesting reading, and perhaps the Guardian does too (too busy to read it these days, comrades: we of the middle...
R.R.Oliver@...
Mar 20, 2006 10:55 pm
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Thank you very much for taking the time to respond and for your helpful advice. I will be sure to consult your book Many thanks Graham Lewis ...
I am trying to find out some history of a rifle range carefully marked on OS 1st Ed 1:10560 County Series (1887) at Wavering Down, west of Axbridge on the...
