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Subject: Re: British OS launches free data site: UK newspaper article
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2010 15:36:33 -0400
From: Russell Guy <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
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Francis;
I agree he probably meant the Ordnance Survey maps : a concise guide
for historians' however, Dr. Oliver's short 5-page article 'A Short
History of the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain' is available on-line
at http://www.charlesclosesociety.org/osgbhistory
The link to the Independent article, for me at least, required .html
rather than .htm.
Cheers
Russell
At 03:17 PM 4/2/2010, you wrote:
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>Subject: RE: British OS launches free data site: UK newspaper article
>Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 20:02:25 +0100
>From: Francis Herbert <[log in to unmask]>
>To: 'Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship'
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>Russell:
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>And, should anyone be interested in at least one British 'quality'
>newspaper's reaction, you can refer to either the hard copy of 'The
>Independent' (London) for today, 2 April 2010, article 'No. 1 in the
>charts since 1717' (full page 15, with 2 col. images); or to the online
>version (with only 1 image - omitting the hard copy's folded and rather
>worn OS map heading the page):-
>
>www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/os-maps-no1-in-the-charts-sin
>ce-1747-1934059.htm
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>One may be 'pressed' [an inevitable Francis Herbert pun (as April
>Carlucci will confirm)] to locate a copy of what the journalist,
>Jonathan Brown, cites as Dr Richard Oliver's publication 'A Short
>History of the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain'. Perhaps he intended to
>cite 'Ordnance Survey maps : a concise guide for historians', 2nd ed.,
>rev. & expanded (London : The Charles Close Society [for the Study of
>Ordnance Survey Maps], 2005), ISBN 1-870598-24-5|?
>
>Francis (Herbert)
>Past Member (when Curator of Maps, RGS-IBG, London), International Map
>Trade Association
>
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>Subject: British OS launches free data site
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>-------- Original Message --------
>Subject: British OS launches free data site
>Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 09:48:41 -0400
>From: Russell Guy <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
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>The British Ordnance Survey has released the gov't report on the future
>direction of the OS, including what data will be released free of charge
>for private, public, and commercial use. The report is available at
>http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/corporate/pdf/1528263.pdf . It
>is interesting in that the British gov't is now setting up a "commercial
>contract" with OS for funding at least some of the costs of the OS,
>whereas the OS was fully self-supporting up to now.
>
>The OS also launched today its new "OS OpenData" website at
>www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/opendata
><http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/opendata> where the public can download
>the various free data sets, including medium scale vector data, etc.
>According to the OS, the new site is very overloaded today and users may
>get a request for user i.d. and password. This requirement is a glitch
>due to the overland and OS is working to fix it.
>
>It will be interesting to see what paper maps get discontinued due to
>funding considerations. The OS has already announced the end of its
>very popular 1:250,000 Travelmaster road map series as well as its
>single-sheet Routemaster road map.
>
>Cheers
>Russell Guy [log in to unmask]
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