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
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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....
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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
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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 ...
The following visits for Charles Close Society members are fully booked : 4 June Lovell Johns and 11 July Bodleian Library. It is possible to reserve a standby...
My apologies both for cross-posting, and to those of you who have read this already in the original. The latest issue of *Walk*, the Rambler's Association...
Richard Oliver
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Jun 9, 2008 8:13 am
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As a former employee of Cheshire County Council's Public Rights of Way Unit, I watched the painfully slow process by which this project evolved though it...
Whilst the problems associated with the project in this form were to some extent predictable, it is nevertheless unfortunate that the attempt to bring some...
My local Oxfam shop has a number of folded sheets of outline one inch small sheet maps. They are dissected and put in blue and white Stamfords covers, but...
Visits for Charles Close Society members ==================================== July visit to Bodleian Library is fully subscribed, but places are still ...
See Richard Oliver, 'Diagnostics for distinguishing emarginate revised New Series and Third Edition sheets', Sheetlines 65 (December 2002), 19-31 - written...
Oliver, Richard
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Jun 14, 2008 8:49 pm
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Thank you Richard. Chris Higley has already drawn my attention to your article in Sheetlines, which I have in front of me at this moment - exactly what I...
What follows is a quote in full from the Welsh Highland Railway online discussion group: "I have only recently bought a GPS and must thank Steve Harris for ...
... I have noticed differences between my Garmin etrex tracks logs and the Memory Map/OS 1;50,000 scale mapping, but i find that there is a closer match when...
I agree with Bill. At smaller scales it would make sense to include larger gaps to allow the map to be communicated better to the user. With an increase in...
... This must be right. It is well known that all OS maps up to and including 1:10,000 scale exaggerate features like road widths in order to produce an easier...
