Lot 269 of Wednsesday 14ths "James Bond" auction at Christies on 14th February 2001 - sale number 9017. The Ordnance Map from "From Russia with Love" ...
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Feb 18, 2001 1:18 pm
Hi. I enjoy local history and maps are splendid items when investingation one's locale. I'm currently interested in 1:2500 County Series maps, that is the...
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Richard Fullerton
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Feb 18, 2001 3:48 pm
Blackwells of course are agents for O.S. Perhaps they have a direct line to O.S or maybe the information is on CD, or otherewise residing on a Hard Drive at...
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Richard Fullerton
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Feb 18, 2001 4:12 pm
I'm not a great fan of the O.S. website. Seems cluttered, and all that Java stuff gets on my nerves. O.S. hold copyright to the County Series Maps. Now if...
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Richard Oliver
R.R.Oliver@...
Feb 19, 2001 12:18 pm
I have no idea whether this information is available on the web or NOT: but what I do notice is that the `date' given is that of publication, rather than...
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Richard Oliver
R.R.Oliver@...
Feb 19, 2001 12:27 pm
CORRECTION! - OS will only hold copyright in any county series mapping published less than 50 years ago, i.e. dated 1951 or later. (That excludes all but a...
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Chris Higley
editor@...
Feb 20, 2001 1:14 pm
The OS website has a news release at http://www.ordsvy.gov.uk/media/newsreleases/2001/february/quinquen.htm giving details of the forthcoming quinquennial...
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Peter Stubbs
pete@...
Feb 20, 2001 8:59 pm
HI, I have received this from the web site. Anybody interested please respond direct to Gretchen Batis Oldenfinds@... and not to the list. Regards Peter...
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Philip Fry
philipfry@...
Feb 25, 2001 10:23 am
The Ordnance Surveys policy as regards updating I find intriguing. The Landranger series are forever being revised and republished, yet the Explorer's can...
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Richard Oliver
R.R.Oliver@...
Feb 26, 2001 1:16 pm
The `answer' to this problem may be a chronological one (no pun intended): (1) A policy of effectively comprehensively updating all 1:50,000 Landranger sheets...
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David Andrews
demandrews@...
Feb 26, 2001 3:41 pm
There is some interesting and valuable feedback on these subjects on this website. Has anyone passed it on to OS in Southampton? If not then, as an OS Chief...
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Peter Stubbs
pete@...
Feb 26, 2001 9:07 pm
please ignore this test to the group Peter Stubbs pete@... www.thestubbs.co.uk...
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Feb 28, 2001 9:49 am
Charles Close ============= It is pleasing to know that Charles Close is honoured by having 31 streets in the UK named after him. Here is where they are...
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Mar 5, 2001 7:01 pm
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Mar 7, 2001 3:37 am
If interested, you can read daily GIS, GPS and location-based news headlines at Web-Mapper.com. This week's Spatial Community news headlines can be viewed at ...
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Richard Fullerton
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Mar 7, 2001 3:42 pm
I wonder if anyone can confirm for me the Editions (or publication dates) for the following County Series 1:2500 maps: Map Publication Edn...
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Peter Stubbs
pete@...
Mar 7, 2001 9:34 pm
Hi. This was received from the CCS web site. Take a look if you are interested Pete Stubbs ... From: "Jackie Toth" <jtoth@...> To:...
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David Andrews
demandrews@...
Mar 8, 2001 4:44 pm
Richard, Not possible to answer your query unless you tell us which County these numbers refer to. Have you tried looking in Richard Oliver's "ORDNANCE SURVEY...
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Richard Fullerton
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Mar 9, 2001 12:23 am
... From: David Andrews <demandrews@...> To: <ordnancemaps@...> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 4:44 PM Subject: [ordnancemaps] Re:...
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Richard Fullerton
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Mar 9, 2001 9:20 am
Does this book talk about epoch's, editions, revision editions, publication dates, map sizes and stuff? And is it recommended? Rich....
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David Andrews
demandrews@...
Mar 9, 2001 11:31 pm
Richard, The Richard Oliver book suggests that; 1. 1:10,560 scale maps Yorkshire 247NE and 247SE were published in 1844-49 2. All the 1:2500 sheets you...
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Richard Fullerton
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Mar 10, 2001 10:23 am
David Thanks for the info. I'm sure that 247/12 was published in 1932-3. I'll check on the book by the way. What can be confusing about maps is figuring out...
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Richard Oliver
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Mar 10, 2001 10:24 am
Having been away this week, I have only just seen this series of exchanges. The one thing my `Concise Guide' does NOT mention is `epochs': this is a term which...
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Richard Fullerton
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Mar 10, 2001 10:49 am
Thanks for the info Oliver. What would be great is if you can select a particular 1:2500 map and trace it's every publication. Of course, when I mean...
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Richard Oliver
R.R.Oliver@...
Mar 10, 2001 10:51 am
This has crossed with minE!! The BL collection seems to be complete for post-1895-ish 1:2500s, with a few odd exceptions (mostly post-1945), which are noted in...
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Richard Oliver
R.R.Oliver@...
Mar 10, 2001 10:57 am
... Broadly true: there were sometimes alterations to e.g. boundaries and altitude info without formal republication. The possibility of compiling such a list...
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Richard Fullerton
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Mar 10, 2001 12:29 pm
... From: Richard Oliver <R.R.Oliver@...> To: <ordnancemaps@...> Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2001 10:57 AM Subject: Re: [ordnancemaps]...
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David Andrews
demandrews@...
Mar 12, 2001 11:34 am
... wrote: "So, the latest publication of [Yorkshire] 247/11 is indicated as 1933. But there could exist an unpublished, slightly more, "updated" map coming...
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Richard Oliver
R.R.Oliver@...
Mar 12, 2001 11:57 am
... But of course, there could exist a map, for the sheet required, ... Not quite true: there may be versions which were published and do exist in libraries,...
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Richard Fullerton
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Mar 12, 2001 2:29 pm
Hi I've sent off for Richard Oliver's book in the hope it will put me more in the picture about O.S. maps. Without some reference material like this book, I'm...
