Peter, You may want to try the Royal Institution of Navigation (RIN) I know they have been working up some leaflets on land navigation and that GPS is one of...
Jeremy Stokes
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Jul 3, 2002 11:43 am
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... have been working up some leaflets on land navigation and that GPS is one of them. Web address is http://www.rin.org.uk ... You learn something new every...
I too checked out the RIN website. Found the annual subscription very steep compared to the CCS (£80 pa for a simple membership). Lez Watson [Non-text...
We are all familiar with modern books which print modern OS maps alongside older maps of the same area for comparison purposes, but I was intrigued earlier...
Gtcornell@...
Jul 4, 2002 4:01 pm
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You may be interested to know that the OS has released a list to the GPS community and it is downloadable from: ...
With the holiday season on us and the prospect of there being more days like to day (rain followed by a light drizzle) here are some of books which have...
Hi, have just joined and am very interested in the topic of Ordnance Survey maps. I have two queries. 1. How do I find where Silver Street used to be in...
... London. Rotherhithe is small enough to do a visual search for Silver Street on the various old OS maps which are available freely on the Internet. If you...
Thank you ! Excellent - My ggg.grandparents lived in Silver Street. Thank you also for the directions to find the global survey. Kind regards, Brenda From:...
Hi everybody, its good to find you all so interested in maps. I have a fiew questions that you may be able to help me with. I am looking for a source of...
On Mon, 22 Jul 2002 13:49:03 -0000 liamcastagna <liam@...> wrote: Ive seen a book advertised by the ... I am in a UNIQUE position: not only have I...
Richard Oliver
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Jul 23, 2002 12:53 pm
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I have a couple of the David & Charles reprints of the First Edition 1" maps but find that a lot of the symbols are not self-explanatory. Can anyone tell me...
Put shortly, there ain't one. Redrawn symbols were given in the 8 volumes of the Harry Margary Ordnance Surveys Old Series reprint (8 vols, Lympne, Harry...
Richard Oliver
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Jul 23, 2002 4:18 pm
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Just in case any of you have bought the two CD's containing almost all the 800 OS 1:2500 maps of Cheshire (1910 editions), and like Roger Holden (who reviewed...
Can anyone give me any sample retail prices for 1:50,000 paper folded OS maps at any dates between 1982 and 1991, please? I'm looking at how the real cost of a...
If you are after a map of somewhere in the world - particularly in "difficult" countries then you might be interested in East View Cartographics at ...
My first post, and, unfortunately, a rant... Now that the Outdoor Leisure series has been subsumed into the Explorer Series, I find it bizarre that OS have...
In his posting, Stevos "find(s) it bizarre that OS have ditched the Scottish OL series completely. In doing so, they have DOUBLED the cost of buying their...
Alan Bowring
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Aug 11, 2002 5:44 pm
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I seem to recall that one of Richard Oliver's criticism's of the 'new' Landrangers was that the sheet number on the spine was in magenta on a silver...
... Sure that's not a color-printing registration problem that may accidentally make it more legible? That may be a happy accident on some copies off the...
As I'm just off on holiday, I shall make you all a present of having to use the delete button once rather than twice! (1) Scottish OLMs: the long-term scheme...
Richard Oliver
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Aug 12, 2002 8:20 am
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... it these ... Pete The remaining Landrangers are due to be published on the 7 October. I noticed the slight change I mentioned on sheets 90 Penrith ...
Hi, Does anybody know if there is rhyme or reason to the buildings shaded a darker colour on pre 1950's 25" mapping. For example PW (place of worship) and...
... have their detractors! And to be fair there are valid arguments on either side. The new sheets do give you a few per cent extra mapping per side, 15 sq km...
... At lunch time today I popped into Smiths in Redditch and indeed there were about a dozen of the new spine numbers of various sheets - and they are ...
I have copied the following from the railwaycanal group where it was posted by Steve Barber. Brian Dobbie was also well known in the Charles Close Society and...
Sheetlines 64, the August issue of the Charles Close Society Journal will be distributed to members tomorrow. The content is as follows: Forthcoming visits ...
