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...
The technique used for producing readable small scale maps when hand drawn used to be known as 'generalisation' and included widening of roads and the ...
All, The point raised previously about OS maps my indeed be valid. However, many consumer users of GPS recievers are generally unaware of the issues associated...
Hi! My interest is in war Memorials. On some of the earlier editions (c1870 - 1950)of the OS maps there is a War Memorial indicated in fromt of the blast...
The intials 'WM' on an OS plan stand for 'Weighing Machine/s'. Yo Hodson ... From: stublick To: ordnancemaps@... Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008...
Yolande Hodson
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Jun 25, 2008 1:51 pm
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Ha! Perhaps a Eureka moment! Tho' I think the words 'War Memorial' are on some of the earlier maps. I need to check them out from a friend's extensive...
Weighing Machines and their surrogate 'WM' are quite common from the 1840s onwards (they were forerunners of the weighbridges which are still common on...
Richard Oliver
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Jun 27, 2008 5:28 pm
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The South African War memorial <http://www.ukniwm.org.uk/server/show/conMemorial.17351/> unveiled in 1906 in Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham (SP068839) is marked...
Hello all, I was intrigued recently at the release of the re-branded OS 'Tourist Map' of Scotland at 1:500,000 scale (ISBN 9780319251102). This was published...
This is interesting. It may be that 'memorial' in the commemorative sense was not much used before c.1914, and so the OS persisted with 'Monument'. Richard...
Oliver, Richard
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Jun 28, 2008 11:25 am
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Hi guys! Thanks for all the replies re: Backbarrow. My mate Rod, a map anorak(!!), has a complete collection of OS maps for Backbarrow but he is at the Dent...
During the recasting of the 1:2500 series into National Grid plans in the 1950s, 60s and 70s the field surveyors carried a book called the Object Name Book...
The ONBs record authorities for the spelling and form of names rather than abbreviations so you may not find the expanded information in this source. Yo...
Yolande Hodson
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Jun 30, 2008 8:25 am
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The surviving Object Name Books of the OS are in the National Archives [Public Record] Office: all the surviving County Series ones for England and wales were...
Richard Oliver
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Jun 30, 2008 8:55 am
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I think you will find that the ONBs contain only records of the form and spelling of Distinctive names, that is names that refer to particular named objects or...
Information from the July catalogue has been added to the summary lists and may be found at http://www.watsonlv.addr.com/os-maps.htm . (And a very thin month...
Work is almost complete on a new edition of this historical map, and an advance image can be seen at www.canalmaps.net/HCM2.htm This may be of interest to CCS...
Regarding my earlier message, my apologies for the broken link in the website preventing access to the image. This has now been repaired. Richard Dean ... ...
