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A Happy new year to all . Bill Henwood will be give a talk entitled "I don't collect military maps but ..." at the Charles Close Society Midlands meeting at...
I know, of course, of Bartholomew's half-inch maps, but please can anyone tell more about "Bartholomew's One Inch Map of North London Roads and Countryside"? A...
To take these points in order: (1) The North London map has a South London counterpart. I seem to recall having seen either one or the other with a 1921...
Richard Oliver
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Jan 2, 2002 12:22 pm
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can anyone tell me what a plain, unshaded cicle might mean? also a plain, unshaded rectangle? Thanks in advance Jean...
... Could you give us a clue as to where you have seen these symbols! e.g. was it an OS map, and if so what scale and how old? How big are the symbols? If you...
When I am giving grid refs to nearesr 100m ie 6 figs., then if the 'point' does not fall precisely on one of the 10th. divisions on my romer scale, do I give...
My practice is to give the nearest reading below; that way one can easily `upgrade' to an 8-figure reference, if needed. An alternative is to give a reference...
Richard Oliver
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Jan 14, 2002 11:32 am
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Lisa Lewis has asked whether there is a conventional way of deciding how to read a 6 figure reference of a point when its position does not lie exactly on the...
Chris Board
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Jan 15, 2002 11:38 am
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Lisa wrote ... The Ministry of Defence Manual of Map reading and Land Navigation does not say whether to round up or down but does recommend that if you are...
Is anyone able to let me have some information about these maps? I have come some maps from: Series 1501 Edition 1-GSGS Joint Operations Graphics - Ground. and...
You will find a paper on the Joint Operations Graphic under the title of "The Land and Air Chart at 1:250,000" in The Cartographic Journal, volume 4, 1967, pp....
Chris Board
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Jan 19, 2002 11:09 am
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Can anyone tell me what we can expect to see that is obviously different, when all the updated Landranger maps are released in March? Also, why are all the...
Bill Batchelor
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Jan 19, 2002 3:06 pm
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Am as mystified as you, Bill. The OLMs are surely being issued en bloc in a new format of some kind. The Landrangers are desribed as 'new specification', not...
leznlynne@...
Jan 19, 2002 5:29 pm
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The January 2002 OS new publications list is a messy document - witness the putting of the republished Outdoor Leisures under Explorers - and the only bright...
Richard Oliver
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Jan 19, 2002 11:42 pm
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Thank you Richard for your thoughts on the various new formats. I wonder whether the 'merging' of the Explorers and Outdoor Leisure Maps into one list is an...
leznlynne@...
Jan 20, 2002 1:59 pm
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Thanks, Lez! ... Yes, and there's also the abolition of the price differential. It would certainly make sense to treat them all as one series, but the...
Richard Oliver
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Jan 21, 2002 3:15 pm
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... This is all a bit theoretical, but does the above imply that any rebranding would give a new series name for all the 1:25 000s? If one or other of the ...
By curious coincidence only a matter of hours after reading Iain Taylor's piece on 'OS maps in military map-reading manuals', I was given, quite out of the...
Alan Bowring
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Jan 28, 2002 9:10 pm
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Further details on this 1:20,000 map will be found in my article on the OS 1:25,000 family in Sheetlines 36 (April 1993), 1-27. Briefly, the 1:20,000 was one...
Richard Oliver
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Jan 29, 2002 12:41 pm
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I have a 1943 printing of 'Notes on Map Reading'. The cover still says 1929 (Reprinted with Amendments (Nos 1 to 4) 1939) and in the introduction 'It...
Hi Could someone please tell me what the following symbol means ... it is shown on an old 1/2500 scale plan against a property boundary I think its to confirm...
... It is hard to say for sure. If it is like a lollipop on a National Grid 1:2500 sheet it is to mark the perimeter of a built-up area with a single ...
lawence morris
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Jan 30, 2002 7:51 pm
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If it looks a bit like a `lollipop', then it indicates the limit of the area for which 1:2500 parcel numbers are supplied. It should occur on the edge of a...
Richard Oliver
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Feb 1, 2002 4:56 pm
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The short answer is, I fear, `No, probably not'. OS do have an extensive archive of photos at Southampton, but I don't know the way into them! Richard Oliver ...
Richard Oliver
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Feb 1, 2002 5:10 pm
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The usual apologies for cross-posting, for `news' which may already have reached some of you by another route, and for something aimed at both libraries and...
Richard Oliver
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Feb 4, 2002 12:17 pm
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The following information is courtesy of Omni Resources via the American MAPS-L list. Tinho Landranger Specification Changes Railways Railways under...
Tinho da Cruz
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Feb 5, 2002 9:13 am
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... 2mm ... My feeling is that this could be a very difficult symbol to find - but then what do I know. There may be sudden rush of railway building about...
Peter writes about railways under construction, well one to look for may be spotted between Bicester North and Banbury. One of the most important stages of the...
