Dear all Apologies for cross posting We are delighted to announce that the refurbishment of Cambridge University Library Map Department is progressing well and...
Dear Colleagues Apologies for cross posting. I am delighted to announce a vacancy at Cambridge University Library Map Library. Further particulars can be found...
It used to be possible to look at the 2nd Edition OS maps on http://www.old-maps.co.uk/ but that link no longer works. Is any of the historic OS mapping still...
The "old maps" website is working again but darned if I can see how to zoom in on an area - all I get are some rectangles of mapping they want to sell me! The...
... There are small arrows (triangles) at the four corners and another four at the mid-point of each side which allow you to recentre the map. Those, plus the...
In Bloomsbury's Bibliophile Sale of 3rd April (Sale 645) there is one lot of maps in the 700 lots. As some of you may be interested, I give details below: "Lot...
Bill Henwood has updated his Landranger Bar Reprints listing (v55) which may be found at http://www.watsonlv.addr.com/LandrangerBarReprints.htm . Regards Lez...
Dear Friends and Colleagues I am delighted to announce that the refurbished Map Room at Cambridge University Library is now open for business. After 8 months...
Wonder if these might be of interest to a collector? ORDNANCE SURVEY ENGLAND AND WALES COMPLETE SET c 1940 VG/None Sheet numbers 2 to 146 bound in 14 blue...
Iain Taylor
mapman@...
Apr 8, 2008 8:49 pm
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Dear everyone Does any one know whether a speific Geographic Coordiante System is required when creating a spatial reference using the Cassini-Soldner...
... When trying a similar exercise I used information listed in the society's publication on Bryan Adams, "Projections and Origins"**, which has various lists...
Thank you for your help Peter and the link. I've ordered a copy of Brian's writings which will be arriving this week. In the mean time I attempted to create a...
Thanks to Rodney Leary's efforts over the weekend, around 600 copies of the April issue of Sheetlines (and information about the AGM) are now in the post to...
On my way to a meeting at the Royal Geographical Society yesterday I dropped into Stanfords. In case colleagues had not picked up on this - they were offering...
David Parsons
dparsons@...
Apr 15, 2008 1:21 pm
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Perhaps of interest. Replies to Liz please (liz.scott@...), not to me! ... Subject: [CARTO-SoC] Free to a good home: Large scale OS maps of Berkshire...
I recently bought a job lot of large scale maps. Included were 66 official copies of 1:10,000 1/4 grid square based (ie NW, NE, SW, SE of the grid square) with...
Apologies for cross posting Dear all The final Cambridge Seminar in the History of Cartography for this year will be in the Harrods Room, Emmanuel College, on...
Sheetlines 81 contained a letter from Peter Walthall asking for information about Bartholomew 1:100,000 maps. Please do not reply to this directly. We are very...
Can any Origami enthusiasts enlighten , please, Forbes _____ From: Geoff Watts [mailto:gwatts@...] Sent: 29 April 2008 11:58 To:...
Forbes Robertson
forbes.robertson@...
Apr 29, 2008 10:37 pm
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This sounds like Bridges Patent Mounting, which involved back-to-back mounting, evidently designed to faciolitate moving about the map without having to open...
Oliver, Richard
R.R.Oliver@...
Apr 30, 2008 10:03 am
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Do people class the OS war revision series and second war revision series separately from the Scottish popular series/popular edition series and/or fifth...
The usual practice is to treat War Rev and 2nd war Rev either completely separately, or as continuations of the pre-war military series GSGS 3907 and 3908. It...
Richard Oliver
R.R.Oliver@...
May 2, 2008 10:06 am
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Hi Richard Thank you for your reply. My reason for asking was that I recently purchased some of the books you have written on the different series and I am...
Thank you for this and your appreciative remarks: I can see how the confusion arose. Whilst the War Revision was issued in outline-and-water in Scotland, i.e....
Richard Oliver
R.R.Oliver@...
May 5, 2008 8:34 am
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Just to update people on my Cassini-Soldner projection creation issues with ArcGIS. I now have my six inch map referenced as required. I am happy to e-mail...
