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...
Indexes to map series tend to turn up more in libraries than in the second-hand trade. I am wondering if the Eastbourne bookshop is Camilla's: I have obtained ...
Richard Oliver
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Jun 12, 2007 10:21 am
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Are these the Office Reference series? Yo Hodson ... From: Richard Oliver To: ordnancemaps@... Sent: Monday, June 11, 2007 4:41 PM Subject: Re:...
Yolande Hodson
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Jun 12, 2007 5:05 pm
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Hello What were the Office Reference series? Thanks in anticipation Adrian James ... From: Yolande Hodson To: ordnancemaps@... Sent: Tuesday,...
I have read sometime - but can't recall just where - about the authorisation for the erection of trig points. Did OS need landowner permission to install trig...
The basic authority is the Survey Act of 1841, which authorises OS to enter lands and erect markers. Compensation is payable for actual damage done: I'm not...
Richard Oliver
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Jun 13, 2007 8:54 am
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I believe out of the 6500 odd pillars erected the Act was only invoked once, to forcibly install a trig point, but don't however remember the specifics now. I...
Of peripheral interest: when I worked in the Geography Department at the University of Portsmouth we bought a number of pieces of equipment from the OS in a...
Da Cruz, Antonio
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Jun 13, 2007 10:20 am
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Thank you for all the replies. Although I do pop in to Camilla's when I am in Eastbourne, which isn't very often, I got these maps from a second hand shop in...
A picture of the two trig points at the reservoir near Wadhurst will be found in Sheetlines 70 (August 2004) page 60. The same issue also contains a reprint of...
** apologies for cross posting ** Dear All A few months ago I told you about the refurbishment of the Map Department at Cambridge University Library and warned...
I own 6?or 8 copies of the above maps [I'm working away from home at the moment so can't check] Though bearing the 1805 date they must be later revisions as...
Sorry that I'm a bit rustyas I left the OS in 1973 but didn't all inch to the mile maps show [onthe inside of the cover?] the scale of he base survey for the...
When I worked on the redrawing of the 1:2500 plans (probably using your survey data from the field docs) we had maps showing where the 1:2500 coverage ended...
[The usual apologies for cross-posting.] I have for disposal the following map-chests: [1] In two halves, each a carcass with three drawers: one top. Drawers ...
Richard Oliver
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Jun 25, 2007 3:31 pm
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The pages have been updated and posted in the usual place [http://www.watsonlv.addr.com/os-maps.htm]. Not much added this month. They must all be on holiday. ...
http://money.guardian.co.uk/workweekly/story/0,,2131107,00.html - may be of interest if you don't already know what today's surveyors get up to with their GPS...
Thanks for this. I took a look at the article; the reporter seems obsessed with 'plumb lines'. What were these used for I wonder? I don't think that...
I must make it clear that my questions here relate to a RoW issue where motorists have been challenged about using a section of what they believe is an...
[Yes it certainly is quiet here at the moment We seem to go at it in fits and starts....] The best man to answer you questions will no doubt be Richard Oliver...
Hi Les I understand about OS and RoW and how OS maps can only play a part in getting the overall picture of the status of the route but also that surveyors...
I don't think there is a definitive answer here, other than to reiterate the now standard OS caveat that depiction of a route is no evidence of a right of way....
I am afraid that this is not a very satisfactory query, and various questions need to be answered before there is any investigation of 'historic' mapping: (1)...
Richard Oliver
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Jul 27, 2007 4:07 pm
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Dear All, If I create an entirely fictional map in the OS style, using OS symbols and conventions, is there a copyright issue? I don't mean making any claim...
