Dear All May be of interest Anne -- Anne Taylor Head of Map Department, Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR Tel: 01223-333041. Fax:...
Dear all I gather that my first attempt to send this message was a bit of a failure (for some, if not all of you). Here goes again! Anne From: Berenice Ortega...
Those interested in the myriad websites using Ordnance Survey base data may like to take a look at the online heat loss map for the London Borough of Haringey...
... Hi, I wonder whether you can assist me. My great, great grandfather John Shannon joined the Ordnance Survey in 1858 as a spirit leveller and contourer. I...
Peter Stubbs
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May 9, 2007 6:44 am
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Not a very satisfactory answer, I'm afraid! (1) The OS was working in various districts simultaneously between 1858 and 1890, and there are no extant records...
Richard Oliver
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May 9, 2007 12:25 pm
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CCS members who are planning to be in Southampton this Friday evening prior to Saturday's AGM and are interested in gathering for a meal, should contact Ken...
Hello, Sorry if this is widely known already but can non-members attend the map fair at the CCS AGM this Saturday? I am a member and work at OSHQ and intend...
I'm a non member but would also be interested in the Fair. I believe it's Cambridge, not far from me. John Hobden Mark Hall wrote: Hello, Sorry if this is...
The map fair is this Saturday afternoon, following the CCS AGM at OS office in Southampton. Normally the event is restricted to CCS members, but as we are...
... OS ... guests of ... with ... Oliver. ... John, Thanks for your reply. I was only going to attend the map fair but may well come earlier as the talk sounds...
I got the time wrong, sorry. Coffee is served from 10.30, the formal business meeting is at 11.00 with the talk following. Then lunch, then the map fair. ...
From another Yahoo newsgroup: "I have recently acquired 1:50K OS digital mapping. It is dated 2006-1 in terms of edition. That too shows Lower Addiscombe and...
Hello, I was just wondering if anyone had a copy of, or if one was produced at all, a list of all the Ordnance Survey 1:2500 scale maps that were produced. I...
The closest approach is the county lists in: Richard Oliver, Ordnance Survey maps: a concise guide for historians, 2nd edition, London: Charles Society, 2005,...
R.R.Oliver@...
May 21, 2007 3:22 pm
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Hi Richard, Thanks for that. I do actually have a copy of your book, and it is incredibly useful. However unfortunately I need to know details down to...
Hi Alan, Don't know if it is of any help, but I have 6 1:2500 Ayrshire maps from the Galston area. They are titled 'Edition of 1910'. They were all surveyed in...
(1) Yes, if no individual sheets are listed, then all were produced. (2) I don't indicate areas where the basic scale was 6-inch, as I think was the case in...
R.R.Oliver@...
May 21, 2007 9:49 pm
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As a regular visitor, map in hand, to the limestone areas of the UK, I have often noticed how OS portray shakeholes ( = sinkholes, swallets, dolines etc)on the...
The latest regular updates will be along in the next few days. In the mean time, I've spent a little time this month tinkering with the existing lists. Entries...
Dear All, A couple of weeks or so ago I wrote to many of you requesting that you take a look at a petition to the Prime Minister which had been put up on the ...
Hello all A question about the 1/250000 series 1501 AIR (Joint Operations Graphic) Probably not quite within the remit of this group, but as the print codes on...
Hi, Does anybody know if there is a collection in existence of historical maps of Germany at high detail, e.g. 1:10,000 scale? If so do you know where I could...
These have been updated, except for the Explorer Maps which will follow later, and posted in the usual place [http://www.watsonlv.addr.com/os-maps.htm]. (I...
Dear everyone I have some Ordnance Survey series indexes from the 1940s, for one inch, half-inch and quarter inch OS maps, as well as some later indexes for...
I don't know what the 'O.R.' codes are, though I suspect a unique serial number and nothing to do with 'revision', which has a strict meaning of 'updating'....
Richard Oliver
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Jun 11, 2007 4:08 pm
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I should have added that the indexes are numbered as such: Index No 15 CODES H:A1 (referring to two index maps) Index No 14 CODE D (one index map) Index No 13...
Hello It sounds as though the codes refer to indexes from the RAF Map catalogue. I have a copy of the sixth edition of the catalogue and these indexes are...
