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I was just looking at an area near Cambridge and found a join in the photo coverage. It is just East of the junction between the A14 and A1303 east of...
Some of you may be interested in the following lot from the Christopher Crutwell Collection, in the sale of Argyll Etkin for 8th March 2007: "Lot 15 - Detailed...
Inspecting Explorer sheets OL12 and OL13 covering the Brecon Beacons National Park I noticed that there is a section of road with yellow infill denoting of...
The summary lists have been updated and may be found, as usual, at www.watsonlv.addr.com/os-maps.htm <http://www.watsonlv.addr.com/os-maps.htm> . Regards Lez ...
Hi, Can anyone help with this trace. Ref is near NG 897546 on my 7th Ed Sheet 26. Has anyone an earlier map which may show the area ? Regards, Forbes. _____ ...
Forbes Robertson
forbes.robertson@...
Feb 6, 2007 8:30 pm
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The site you need is www.old-maps.co.uk. If you enter the co-ordinates 189947, 856080 you will find Doire nam Fuaran marked. Entering the same co-ordinates on...
... the 1:50,000 map location which would now appear to be Torridon The current 1:10,000 OS map shows both "Durrie" and "The Fuarran" at the same location -...
Dear all We are cataloguing an interesting item: "Nature-study realistic geography : ‡b model based on the 6-inch Ordnance Survey / ‡c designed by G....
The War Game maps were produced in 1901 and cover the area of the Thames Valley and southern Chilterns to the north and north-west of Reading. There were 16,...
R.R.Oliver@...
Feb 9, 2007 9:58 pm
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How odd! Has the actual situation been checked on the ground? Richard Oliver [Delaying tactic to avoid looking at own maps as too busy...] On Mon, 5 Feb 2007...
Richard Oliver
R.R.Oliver@...
Feb 10, 2007 10:11 am
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... It was certainly a metalled road when I was up there a few years ago. [It is a good test of one's navigational skills to walk from this road to find the...
I ought to go and have a look, then report back sometime since its now in my neighbourhood. Closer inspection of the older version of the OL 13 map (Edn A)...
... now in my neighbourhood. If you want to stay in the warm and dry, the images of the Trefil area on Google Earth are good enough to make out the stone...
Chris Higley speculates that the reason for this `marooned' stretch of yellow road may be that :- "two neighbouring highway authorities have taken differing...
It is perhaps inevitable that some inconsistencies will arise when two overlapping approaches to road depiction are used - one relying on the physical...
Even the showing of rights of way symbols on roads with a coloured infill may not necessarily be an error on the part of OS if - as does happen - the...
There is a problem in that 'road' is variously defined in different pieces of legislation - and which of these definitions, if any, is OS using in its key?...
Alan All that is understood and agreed - although I think it is a matter of fact, rather than argument, that the 2006 cut-off date will extinguish even routes...
I suspect that OS's 'unpublicised' policy is: (1) All 'unclassified' roads outside built-up areas which appear to be 'public' and are tarred are infilled...
Richard Oliver
R.R.Oliver@...
Feb 12, 2007 9:20 am
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Given the publicity created by the recent motoring petition, here is something else to worry about. Please pass it on, and visit the website. Do not assume ...
Are there any obvious reasons why a building that has been in place for at least 25 years should never - as far as both I and County Council officers can tell...
A friend alerted me to this one at www.esa.int - just click on the link on the right hand side to view contour maps of Martian terrain at 1:50,000 scale As he...
In a message dated 2/15/2007 1:50:39 PM GMT Standard Time, jdand@... writes: It's a domestic single garage of fairly standard size - not attached to...
... for at least 25 years should never - as far as both I and County Council officers can tell - have been shown on OS mapping at any scale ? So common, I'm at...
What I've noticed time and again at 1:25,000 scale is a failure to update field boundary and bridge information in rural areas - the information can be 15, 20...
Don't they (OS) have some rule about updating after X amounts of change (units?). So the odd garage won't get added until 40? garages have been built! On my...
The most probable reasons for omission of the garage are either (1) that there aren't enough house units in the vicinity to justify an economic visit by a...
Richard Oliver
R.R.Oliver@...
Feb 16, 2007 9:30 am
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OK, but it isn't even on the Landline mapping. JA ... From: Richard Oliver To: ordnancemaps@... Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 9:36 AM Subject:...
