THANKS Hugh, Regards, Forbes. ... From: ordnancemaps@... [mailto:ordnancemaps@...] On Behalf Of hugh brookes Sent: 30 September...
Forbes Robertson
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Oct 1, 2006 5:40 pm
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So far as the presert National Grid is concerned, the official changeover from 100 km square designations by numbers to designation by the familiar letters...
Richard Oliver
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Oct 2, 2006 9:55 am
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Can anyone help, please, forbes _____ From: Lynne McCarrick [mailto:lynne.mccarrick@...] Sent: 10 October 2006 17:40 To: Forbes Robertson Subject: Re:...
Forbes Robertson
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Oct 10, 2006 9:52 pm
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HEADS UP: The OS have not published the October report (yet). This is the latest no show for a long time. I'll post the changes when (if?) I get them. ...
Unfortunately, as he seems to have been a civilian in the OS, it's unlikely there is any record of him surviving. A dead end, I fear. Richard Oliver On Tue, 10...
Richard Oliver
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Oct 12, 2006 1:29 pm
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The southernmost point on the Lleyn Peninsula (at SH 293230) is named on current Landranger as Trwyn Cilan. Similarly so on the One-inch sheet 115 (1952) and...
The summary lists have been updated - such as they are - and may be found at http://www.watsonlv.addr.com/os-maps.htm . The OS appear to be going through a...
The last fully revised Landrangers were issued around Aug-Sept 2004. My suspicion is that OS have cut down on small scales revision/'drawing' in preparation...
R.R.Oliver@...
Oct 14, 2006 5:33 pm
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I've just uploaded an updated version of my conversion program "Co-ordinate Converter". It's still freeware so feel free to download at your leisure and enjoy....
I would like to pose a question that might be seen as doubly 'anoraky' (no offence intended to either cartophiles or train enthusiasts - I wear my own anoraks...
... I've a map (somewhere) of Sodor. It is rather 'Barts' (was keyboard with soap and water) than 'OS'. It was a 'published' version. If no one else come up...
Hi Alan Search for Sodor in the Map Search on COPAC http://www.copac.ac.uk/ and you will find several editions. Not sure if any are still available though. ...
From elsewhere: "Before I came to Canada in the 60s I worked for the Forestry Commission (as it was then) surveying new roads and rides on the North York...
As one of the OS surveyors involved in revising/resurveying the 1:2500 and 1:10,000 maps of the North York Moors in the late 1960s and early 1970s I am able to...
Thanks David, Your answers are very enlightening for (at least) two entirely different reasons! I'm not surprised that the OS didn't use Forestry plans for...
I believe that the reasin why OS no longer surveys 'on the ground' on railway property is to do with health & safety, rather than anything else! In their...
Richard Oliver
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Oct 20, 2006 2:51 pm
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Thanks Richard for that reply. It sounds a straightforward approach then. Lez {consuming few Landrangers 'cos they're making few} Watson...
Just for interest from my fairly average knowledge of the language of Wales: Trwyn Cilan could be translated into Englsh as 'Cilan's nose' The PenKilan in...
Richard Oliver wrote:- ... Interesting! Lez Watson and I we both subscribe to another egroup where a specific issue is being discussed. Lez is not giving the...
Ah Jim, you found me out! Perhaps I should have asked the question and have done with. I do wonder if some of this relates to the 'limits of technology' ...
Recent mention regarding lack of recently updated editions of OS 1:50,000 and 1:25,000 paper maps, has set me thinking on that subject. The 1:25,000 covering...
Richard, You are correct in saying that the only reason for OS surveyors not to set foot on railway property is on Health and Safety grounds. However, I am not...
Does anyone know whether Rangoon was mapped either by the Ordnance Survey or to similar standards? I'm hoping that this 'Raj' outpost may have been mapped at,...
The Ordnance Survey 1:2500 plans in this area were revised in 1913 and show the unfinished and by then virtually abandoned works of the PB&SSR. I have no doubt...
Hi Hugh, Many thanks for the prompt response. I think the date may be a little 'late' for my interests, however your reply has prompted me to look up the...
I doubt that Rangoon would fall within the OS's remit, being outside the UK, and if there had been some sort of repayment-basis survey I'm sure that it would...
R.R.Oliver@...
Oct 29, 2006 3:44 pm
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I have only just seen these exchanges, having been away all week. When I wrote of the OS using 'railway surveys', I was thinking of the detailed mapping of the...
R.R.Oliver@...
Oct 29, 2006 4:00 pm
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An interesting posting from Philip Fry which I find waiting after a week away! As a general rule, the larger the scale of the map the more detail it contains...
