You can set the sort order of messages? Just click on the link in the date column. Your preferences will be remembered, so you don't have to do it again when you return.
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...
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Feb 5, 2002 10:01 am
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This from the OS N. Am. agent. Excuse cross-postings. Iain Taylor Landranger Specification Changes Railways Railways under construction new symbol solid...
Many thanks to Tinho and Iain for obtaining this much! I have forwarded it to the lis-maps list, on which the orginal message was also posted. Points on which...
Richard Oliver
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Feb 5, 2002 3:24 pm
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Further to this. Attached are three files: 1) cover image 2) list of release dates 3) list of spec changes. Please excuse cross postings. iain...
... Iain, The group doesnt accept attachments. If you want send the cover image direct to me and I will post it on the CCS web site. Regards Pete Stubbs ...
Iain forwarded me the new cover and it is now on the CCS website at... http://www.charlesclosesociety.org.uk/news.htm Click on the small image for a full...
It indeed does take time to download, even on a Pentium! It seems OK, but the test will be the legibility of the spine sheet number. However, surely they could...
Richard Oliver
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Feb 6, 2002 12:27 pm
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Received from the CCS web site. Please can anybody who would like to reply direct to Adrian Smith A.J.Smith-1@... Regards Peter Stubbs ... From:...
Ordnance Survey announced last October that we were planning further improvements to our paper map range, starting in 2002. Naturally, we have advised the...
Jeremy Stokes
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Feb 7, 2002 2:46 pm
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Anyone looked at this: http://www.symbols.com/index.html to see how the OS symbols past and present may be represented or compared? iain taylor...
How curious! Are those to whom it would not be helpful the retailers or the customers?! Is the new mapping so wonderful that the public will decline to buy the...
Richard Oliver
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Feb 11, 2002 12:49 pm
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I'm sure I'm not the only one to observe that the portion of mapping reproduced as the background to the word 'Landranger' on the sample new Landranger cover...
<<a cosmetic exercise (like the difference between Windows 95 and 98), rather than a wholesale change>> I don't know about that, Jack, but if the new format /...
leznlynne@...
Feb 12, 2002 11:31 am
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The probable reason why two non-existent trig. pillars appear on current OS 1:25,000 maps of Devon is that 1:25,000 revision is not as complete as it might be...
Richard Oliver
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Feb 15, 2002 12:10 pm
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I have received the following from mail@... Can anyone help? Forbes "I am trying to obtain a copy of Cornwall with this grid system. I have...
Forbes Robertson
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Feb 17, 2002 8:28 pm
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Have you seen the Ordnance Survey advertisement 'Exploring the Great Outdoors starts here' in today's Sunday papers? It advertises the Outdoors Show at the NEC...
Someone has privately inquired of me the best source of info. on Colby (who retired at New Brighton, Wirral and is buried in St. James Cem. almost under the...
Chris, There was one in the Saturday Times main Section - Perhaps the Idea is to Identify Birmingham generally as that is the main text in the Middle of...
Hullo The grid references are for the Modified British System, as used on GSGS 3907 and other similar War Office maps for the WWII period. They look unusual...
At 20:24 17/02/02, you wrote: I have received the following from mail@... Can anyone help? Forbes [etc] These are military grid references in...
Peter Clark
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Feb 17, 2002 11:35 pm
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I did not see the article in the Sunady newspapers for one reason or the other. I am interested in visiting the Exhibition and if anyone has a spare free...
The biography is: Portlock, Lieutenant-Colonel J.E., Memoir of the life of Major- General Colby, together with a sketch of the origin and progress of the...
Thanks David, that is the 19C to which I referred. There does not seem to have been anything later. Have you ever handled that book? iain taylor ... ...
Chris, I spotted another advert for "The Ordnance Survey Outdoor Show" in this weeks Saturday Times and it is slightly different to the one last week. The...
