Dear All, I have just joined as a member of the group, having found that (when visiting as a Guest) there were a couple of postings (Jan 21st and Jan 26)...
One company that worked out all these coordinates (with Brian Adams' help) is Sitescope. Their website: http://www.sitescope.co.uk They scanned all the RGS 6"...
Tinho da Cruz
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Feb 3, 2003 5:11 pm
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Dear Chris and Tinho, Thanks for your replies, which are very helpful. I actually already have copies of the indexes by David Archer, for both England/Wales...
Dear All A recent posting on the Oxfordshire genealogy mailing list mentioned the Four Shire Stone, and I responded by referring to Roger Hellyer's interesting...
I have just paid a brief first visit to the Bodleian library's exhibition on "Street Mapping: an A to Z of Urban Cartography", which opened yesterday. There...
I have just paid a brief first visit to the Bodleian library's exhibition on "Street Mapping: an A to Z of Urban Cartography", which opened yesterday. There...
I may have missed an obvious clue somewhere but........ On 25" maps c.1910 some milestones are marked (def) after MS. Can anyone elaborate on the (def) in...
The instruction was that when the information on the milestone had become obliterated, the word 'defaced' should be written against it on the field sheet....
Yolande Hodson
y.hodson@...
Feb 10, 2003 8:59 am
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Summary lists for the Landranger maps, Explorer maps, and One-inch New Popular and Seventh Series maps have been updated and are now posted at <A...
Would anyone like a run of the Cartographic Journal, Volumes 1 to 31 (June 1964 to December 1994) lacking Vol 16 no.1 for June 1979? The journals are free but...
In 1974, almost thirty years ago, the first 1:50,000 sheets were priced at 65p. Today, the cost is almost ten times that, and will surely have passed £6.50 by...
I have in my collection a cloth mounted Bartholomew's 'Half-Inch to Mile' map sheet 12 ('Cheshire') dating from the latter half of 1923 ('B23' - I owe this...
Alan Bowring
alan.bowring@...
Feb 16, 2003 10:35 am
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Lez, I wonder if anyone else has a problem reading the yellow printed text from your webpage? Iain Taylor...
Dr. Iain C. Taylor
mapman@...
Feb 16, 2003 9:03 pm
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Information was supplied to Bartholomews by local CTC Map Revision Officers, operating under the CTC's District Association structure. They would be appointed...
Hello Folks: The OS Get-a-map facility now allows access to 1:25 000 maps for England and Wales: "You can now zoom to 1:25 000 – our largest scale national ...
... printed ... Hello group Is anyone else having trouble with the yellow on blue format of the summary lists? Or even no trouble at all? Lez Watson...
I can see the yellow on blue in the headers easily enough, and this is still visible after clicking (when it becomes purple on blue). However, the introductory...
Two years ago I was able to report in our CTC magazine, the good news that after years of badgering by cyclists, OS were starting to depict cyclepaths on...
Chris Juden writes at length about inconsistencies in OS portrayal of roads and paths. It might be added that it was a great pity that the Countryside & Rights...
Alan Bowring
alan.bowring@...
Feb 18, 2003 6:36 pm
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The use of green for Primary routes on the Landranger strikes me as most unfortunate even for motoring, as this colour is not 'hierarchical' in the context of...
rroliver
R.R.Oliver@...
Feb 18, 2003 8:57 pm
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To follow and amplify briefly the postings by Alan Bowring and Chris Juden: the early background to the use of the 'CTC system' by Bartholomew is to be found...
rroliver
R.R.Oliver@...
Feb 18, 2003 9:09 pm
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The plot thickens. I can't see why the pages should be weird on Dave Shirt's machine [<<However, the introductory text (alongside the index maps) is black on...
Now I've retired from the University Computing Centre I no longer have ready access to all the expertise on this modern technology (if you need a punched paper...
Ah, that might be a clue! My machine uses Netscape 4, not Internet Explorer. (It's also a Sun workstation running Unix, not a PC - though that's probably not...
At long last I got around to getting the PEL catalogue. I am a bit confused by the range of repair tape on offer and would value some advice. Most of the...
Hallo, It depends what you want to do with the maps. I'd only use Magic Tape on maps that I didn't expect to have a long life span (for me maps that students...
Tinho da Cruz
dacruz@...
Feb 20, 2003 5:00 pm
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I have purchased 'Archival document repair tape' from 'Gresswell Direct Library Essentials'. http://www.gresswell.com The price was £9-50 plus £3-50...
Is anyone out there familiar with the term 'stoops' which so far as I can tell is a north country term for a stone post or similar edifice standing beside a...
