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...
OSGBI 1858 could be the Liverpool datum. The first O.S. selected datum point in 1840 was 100 feet below a bench mark on St. John's church, Liverpool, and a few...
Hi Gerry and everyone Thank you for your reply. Although Liverpool may be the case, I do not have a Liverpool datum in my GIS program. It could be that...
... I don't think so. The Ordnance Survey website has information relevant to this: http://tinyurl.com/5odm26 The Airy 1830 ellipsoid has a major axis of...
A small but important point: if you are having trouble reconciling your results with those from Landmark/Edina data, bear in mind that Landmark scanned in...
Richard Oliver
R.R.Oliver@...
May 9, 2008 2:47 pm
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Information from the May catalogue has been added to the summary lists and may be found at http://www.watsonlv.addr.com/os-maps.htm . Regards Lez...
Hello everybody, Today ordnancemaps has been hit by a load of spurious spam applications for membership. I have removed them all. There is a slim chance that I...
... Given the above comments I have to say that the Landmark mapping works tolerably well when used with a modern OS Mastermap overlay - features usually agree...
Just to add that all new members posts are moderated so you won't receive spam emails. Only once a members first post has been checked to make sure it is ...
For those of you interested in Philatelic items, the recent Sheetlines article about plans to relocate the OS headquarters has prompted me to state that I...
All, Many thanks to all who have expressed interest in my Maybush/1969 FDC, a member has now come forward to accept it, as soon as I am able to verify his ...
