Dear All Apologies for cross posting this preliminary announcement. Anne *__* *_British Cartographic Society (BCS)_* *_Map Curators’ Group (MCG) Workshop...
It looks as though they are using the Cassini scans. (I believe Cassini scanned the New Popular, but decided against publishing it in paper form, apart from...
Oliver, Richard
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May 1, 2009 3:36 pm
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Following a visit to Croome Park (SO 88 44)I looked at several versions of One-Inch Sheet 144 to see how things had changed. The first revision to admit to the...
Not really but the site is worth following up . This is from Alan Turnbull's 'Secret Bases' site: Until 2005, another satellite ground terminal could be found...
... The 'tramways' are also shown on the A edition of the 1:50,000 Second series sheet 150, 1978. Radio telescopes were erected at the disused airfield at...
PS: A little Googling will bring up the folowing extract from 'Royal Radar Establishment, Malvern (Reports of Observatories)' in Quarterly Journal of the Royal...
Dear all Apologies for cross posting The next Cambridge Seminar in the History of Cartography will be held in the Harrods Room, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, UK...
I have not previously heard of Mr Colls in any OS connexion. Given the lowly status of practically all the civilians on the OS in the 1840s, it is natural to...
Oliver, Richard
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May 6, 2009 2:40 pm
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The latest version of Sheetfinder is now available on Charles Close Society website at http://www.charlesclosesociety.org/sheetfinder/sheetfinder.html This...
Dear all Apologies for cross posting The next Cambridge Seminar in the History of Cartography will be held in the Harrods Room, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, UK...
Hello everyone I'm a member of the Charles Close Society and am travelling to the CCS AGM in Ludlow tomorrow (16 May) but have managed to lose the details of...
Andy, et al The meeting tomorrow is at The Old School Hall, Mill Street, Ludlow, SY8 1GU. grid ref: SO 510743 1030 Coffee 1100 Alex Kent's talk 1200 AGM 1430...
Information from the latest OS catalogue has been added to the summary lists (v4.37) and may be found at http://www.watsonlv.addr.com/os-maps.htm . Regards Lez...
The Cambridge Guided Busway is due to open in summer 2009 With regard to the section that has been constructed on the disused railway line between Cambridge...
Just a note to say that Ottawa, Canada's 'Transitway' is 25 years old and now has 34 kms of bus-only roadway. There are still vigourous debates about...
iain taylor
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May 18, 2009 6:39 pm
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I recall that back in the 1970's when the new 'busway' system was established in Runcorn New Town, OS chose to depict it in yellow as a minor road with '4.3m...
The 1-mile length of guided busway in Edinburgh was shown on the 1:25,000 map as a normal unfenced 'white' road. I'm slightly surprised it wasn't shown as...
Dear All Apologies for cross posting The outline programme for the 2009/10 Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography is given below. Details are also...
Information from the latest OS catalogue has been added to the summary lists (v4.38) and may be found at http://www.watsonlv.addr.com/os-maps.htm . Regards Lez...
Sorry to say I've just finished this book - really excellent it was. Often the ones I read could do with very harsh editing, but certainly not this book....
While not a CCS member as yet, but since a major affection for maps and OS maps in particular has been a factor throughout my life, I thought I would add a...
Thought I'd contribute my own life in OS maps. Having joined CCS at roughly age 20 in about 1997 (andybody who has all the Sheetlines to hand will be able to...
Philip said: Regarding maps in general, and the sharing of interest in them, in these days of the internet; it has been a puzzle to me, that there is not a...
Hi Philip, ... There is now. Try this: http://85a.co.uk/maps_forum This is just a bare-bones board at present. If there is enough interest I will get it fully...
""(And if the moderator here permits it, the entire content can be transmitted as emails to this Yahoo group.)"" I recommend you contact the moderator, aka...
Hi Lez, ... No intention to compete, just giving folks additional choices. A web forum is very different from an email group. You can have images, attachments...
I've just remembered that John Davies said that the new CCS website has the capacity to host a forum if it was desired by the members. I'm not sure whether it...
