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Thanks very much to everyone who commented on the matter of OS 1:10560 first edition sheet numbers and dates. Max Satchell ... New Yahoo! Mail is the ultimate...
The Royal Society's Spring lectures include one on Jesse Ramsden, who supplied the theodolites for the Trigonometric survey of Britain (doesn't the purchase of...
Da Cruz, Antonio
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Mar 2, 2007 6:30 pm
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... I have a collection (250+) of Bartholomews maps from the early 1900s onwards which, unfortunately, I now need to find a new home for. Do you know if any of...
Peter Stubbs
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Mar 5, 2007 8:13 am
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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 ...
Any ideas why the above 1” seems so scarce. Sure I have heard why somewhere. Please ensure PC about B&S in all replies ! Forbes. -- No virus found in this...
The following reasons for the reputed elusiveness of this sheet come to mind: (1) Second-hand OS maps generally of certain areas, notably Lincolnshire and SE...
Richard Oliver
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Mar 9, 2007 11:11 am
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Surely, since the air 'is so bracing' in Skeggie, the maps tend to get blown away? Sorry! Somebody had to make this joke; I tried not to, honest. Tinho, the...
Da Cruz, Antonio
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Mar 9, 2007 1:43 pm
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I seem to have a dim recollection that there was some incident commonly referred to now as 'The Boston Map Party' where enraged local citizens threw large...
Dear Richard, I would like to point out (as I am sure you are aware, but for the sake of the readership I will continue) that some of us born in Lincolnshire...
It only takes a couple of schools to decide that Boston is a suitable area for study (declining port, rural deprivation etc.) and buy up class sets then the...
All this talk of M&S and BHS reminds me that back during FMD in 2001 (remember 'FMD'?) my wife (who was then a countryside ranger) was driving along in the...
Dear Simon, et al., AHA! In my original posting I was careful to write 'Lincolnshire has a reputation for being 'flat'', NOT 'Lincolnshire IS flat. As it...
Richard Oliver
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Mar 12, 2007 11:32 am
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Hello all, Can anyone please tell me whether published edition national grid mapping includes all maps or just those printed on paper (i.e. not Sims &...
Dear all, I would be grateful if someone who may know could give me some information about a 1:63 360 4070-GSGS map of Sierra Leone (Freetown). I would like to...
I do not recall an official definition, but in default of something more authoritative I would support the idea that 'published edition' meant litho-printed...
Richard Oliver
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Mar 14, 2007 12:26 pm
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To what extent does OS copyright extend to map covers? If I take digital photos of recent map covers and put them on my PC am I infringing OS copyright? Does...
I think that the same applies to the covers as to the maps, i.e. Crown Copyright running for 50 years, and that therefore authority from OS is necessary for...
R.R.Oliver@...
Mar 15, 2007 9:25 am
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Yes thats my understanding too, from when I asked the OS if could copy them. however you are allowed to use certain images (basically the small 'sample' thumbs...
... I'd suspect, too, that the photographer has copyright in the front-cover photo, almost certainly on more stringent terms than OS (70 years after the death...
Dear All, Could I ask you to take a look at the petition to the Prime Minister regarding future funding of Local Biodiversity Record Centres (LRCs) (see link...
Apologies for cross-posting to Lis-maps, carto-soc, map-hist, ordnancemaps, liber-gdc Dear All The Map Department of Cambridge University Library will soon be ...
Does anyone know who would hold 1964 field reports/documents relating to surveys of newly registered properties carried out by the Ordnance Survey on behalf of...
I have recently been inspecting a number of OS 6" second edition maps of Brecknockshire. Though survey dates are turn of the century, the reprints I was using...
I do not know of any documentation surviving which would provide a better answer, but I suspect that the 'substitution' was of a grade of paper which had...
R.R.Oliver@...
Mar 24, 2007 10:56 am
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I should have thought that the Land Registry should be approached in the first instance. As regards the field documents, three replies are possible: (1) Land...
R.R.Oliver@...
Mar 24, 2007 10:58 am
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I worked on the OS in 1943 and part of 44 and later in RE Survey all the paper that was used for printing was described as 'wet strength'. It had to be to...
As one of the surveyors engaged upon this work from 1964 onwards I can confirm that all records for this work are returned by OS to the originating HMLR...
