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OS Maps app review

James Roddie shares his thoughts on an updated classic in his OS Maps app review after rigorous testing. The post OS Maps app ...
BBC

Direction, scale, distance and height

The four main points of the compass are north, east, south and west. Half way between each of these there are four other points: north-east, south-east, south-west and north-west. This makes an ...
Nature

Scales of Ordnance Survey Maps

IN reply to a question by Colonel A. W. Goodman in the House of Commons on December 12, the Right Hon. Walter E. Elliot, Minister of Agriculture, stated that “no decision has been taken to introduce ...
Nature

Ordnance Survey Maps of Britain

THE initiation of an entirely new ordnance map series on a scale of 1: 25,000, or about 2 ½ inches to the mile, was one of the chief recommendations of a departmental committee set up in 1935. It was ...