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《The Cartographic journal》2013,50(1):24-30
AbstractThe work of the Ordnance Survey in Scotland has been rarely considered at a local level. Several bodies in Glasgow contributed to an extensive correspondence regarding the plan of the city and the appropriate scales of survey. This paper discusses the representation as an insight onto a wider perspective of the development of Ordnance Survey policy in the mid-Victorian era. 相似文献
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AbstractThis explains the formation of the Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland as a separate institution in 1921, when it took over the map series which until that time had been part of the Ordnance Survey (U. K.) responsibility. As happened with many mapping organisations, replanning and reorganisation took place after 1945; this included a triangulation for Northern Ireland to provide a basis for a new Irt"sh Grid, and the introduction of the 1:1250 scale for major urban areas.The technical problems of reproduction and revision are then considered, and details given for each of the main series. 相似文献
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《测量评论》2013,45(57):93-102
AbstractIn 1938 the committee to investigate the activities of the Ordnance Survey, presided over by Lord Davidson, issued its final report. One of the terms of reference of this committee was “to review the scales and styles of Ordnance Survey maps placed on sale to the public and to recommend whether any changes are desirable”. 相似文献
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AbstractThe following six notes describe some of the ways in which reproduction methods of the Ordnance Survey have recently been improved. They have been written by different officersof the Ordnance Survey and Ministry of Supply whose initials appear at the end of each note. 相似文献
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none 《The Cartographic journal》2013,50(1):3-4
AbstractThis paper describes the conservation of the first edition of the six-inches-to-one-mile Ordnance Survey maps of Ireland. It outlines the general problem of the acidity of paper on which nineteenth-century Ordnance Survey maps are printed and the peculiar problems of conserving a hand-coloured presentation set. Each stage in the process is described up to the final encapsulation of the maps in Melinex polyester film. 相似文献
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none 《The Cartographic journal》2013,50(1):87-90
AbstractThis paper describes the design and development of two trial 1:100 000 scale Ordnance Survey maps targeted specifically at the inexperienced and reluctant map users in the touring and holiday market. These are two maps which depart from the very high map specification designs normally offered by Ordnance Survey. The use of extensive consumer market research and the objective analysis of existing touring type maps on sale have enabled Ordnance Survey to publish two experimental maps, which will succeed or fail by consumer reaction alone. 相似文献
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《The Cartographic journal》2013,50(4):324-331
AbstractConsiderable attention has been paid in the literature to the changing style of Ordnance Survey mapping in the twentieth century. However, little has been written about the origins of the characteristic appearance of the first multi-colour editions, other that the Ordnance Survey used a military edition that was already in production. The distinctive style grew out of the work of a committee established in 1892 by the War Office to consider future army requirements for a map of the UK. This paper explores the work of the committee and its long-term implications for the look of mapping in the twentieth century. 相似文献
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《测量评论》2013,45(11):258-264
Abstract The Ordnance Survey and the War.—I shall not inflict upon the readers of this Review any very long account of the work of the Ordnance Survey during the Great War. At that time the work of the Survey suffered from one necessary disadvantage: all the young men on its establishment, whether in the R.E. Companies or on the Civil Staff, left for active service. As a slight compensation for this inevitable dislocation all money difficulties in the preparation of maps for war disappeared. 相似文献
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AbstractA questionnaire to 128 drivers included map reading tasks using ½-inch to 1 mile maps produced by Philips (Shell Motoring Maps) and by the Ordnance Survey, followed by questions about which of the two maps was preferred and about the features required in a road map. 相似文献
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《测量评论》2013,45(90):166-174
AbstractThe old 10-ft. length standards of wrought iron, O1 and OI1, made for the Ordnance Survey in 1826 and 1856 respectively, are briefly described and some account is given of the purpose for which they were constructed.Both these 10-ft. standards were measured in terms of the Yard in 1864, and one of them in terms of the Metre in 1906. They have recently been re-measured at the National Physical Laboratory, and it was found that, allowing for the known shortening of the Imperial Standard Yard since 1895, the 10-ft. Ordnance Survey standards have remained unchanged in length during the last 50 years or so. Furthermore, if it is assumed that the Imperial Standard Yard shortened rather more rapidly between 1853 and 1895 than it has since that date, then the 10-ft. standards can be said to have remained substantially unchanged in length for nearly a century.Additional evidence for the change in the length of the Yard between 1853 and 1895 is provided by the results of measurements made in 1864 on some of the old Toise standards used for geodetic surveys on the Continent, and by some recent measurements made at the N.P.L. of another yard standard contemporary with the Imperial Standard. 相似文献
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《The Cartographic journal》2013,50(2):115-116
AbstractAn assessment is made of the accuracy of the map and written survey, which is essentially a list of land-holders and the areas held by each, and of their mutual consistency. The geometry of the map is compared quantitatively with that of the first edition (1852) Ordnance Survey 6-inch (1 : 10 560) map. The Saxton map is found to have a scale of 1 : 5140, leading to the conclusion that the perch used in the scale bar represents 71/9 yards or thereabouts. The areas quoted in the written survey are consistent with acres based on this value. The positional accuracy of points on the map is found to be ～20 m, and areas of typical plots determined from the map are uncertain by between about 4 and 12%. The relationship between these two facts can be understood through a detailed study of the statistics of the errors in separations of points on the map. The written survey is found to omit a substantial number of plots of land from its listings. The map thus appears to be more reliable overall than the written survey. 相似文献
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none 《The Cartographic journal》2013,50(2):188-199
AbstractThis paper is concerned with the future of the British national mapping agency in a society which is markedly different from that in which the Ordnance Survey Review Committee of 1979 worked. The objective is to ascertain which topographic information is needed, who should provide it, on what terms and through which mechanisms. Prior to making an attempt to answer these questions, the essential characteristics of Ordnance Survey (OS) are summarised as deduced from available documentary evidence; the changing attitudes to information as a commodity, the growing competition in British mapping and the government's stringent requirements from the Survey are also outlined as just three of the many complexities which affect OS. Building upon Smith's classic 1979 paper and subsequent experience, the rationale for government involvement in mapping is examined. It is concluded that the Survey has a continuing vital role though there are a number of steps which the OS should take in order to adapt to changing circumstances. 相似文献
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none 《The Cartographic journal》2013,50(2):91-92
AbstractA reconstruction is made of the methods by which the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain pioneered a system for establishing the place-name nomenclature on its maps in the nineteenth century. Until 1820 there was little to differentiate the practice of the Survey from that of earlier cartographers but, thereafter, official surveyors were encouraged to consult a wide range of written and oral authorities and were instructed to record their findings in special name books. By the mid-nineteenth century the essentials of the modern system had been laid down and many thousands of local names published in map form for the first time.This paper was read in a shorter form to the annual symposium of the Society in September 1970, at the University of Bristol. 相似文献
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none 《The Cartographic journal》2013,50(1):62-67
AbstractThis paper provides a summary of the proceedings and discussion at a conference entitled 'The Future History of Our Landscape', held in October 1992. This meeting explored the issues connected with the changing nature of the Ordnance Survey supply of spatial data, in particular its effect on the Copyright Libraries and their users. Technical and organisational matters concerned with the supply and use of digital data in the archival environment are considered. 相似文献
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《The Cartographic journal》2013,50(3):260-261
AbstractA dealer in second-hand maps, mostly Ordnance Survey maps, looks to the future of map dealers in the light of technological advances and the digital age. 相似文献
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《测量评论》2013,45(10)
AbstractIn 1911 Lord Carrington, then President of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, offered me the appointment of Director-General of the Ordnance Survey of the (then) United Kingdom, and I need not say that I accepted the appointment. I took over from my predecessor, Colonel S. C. N. Grant, on the 22nd August. The Ordnance Survey was a single department charged with the mapping, on a great variety of scales, of England and Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. Officers and men were freely interchangeable between the different countries. 相似文献
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《测量评论》2013,45(53):271-276
AbstractThe old Principal Triangulation of Great Britain and Ireland is a classic, both in execution and publication. The names of many of those who planned it, made it possible, carried it out or computed it have become legendary in the Ordnance Survey. Such are Roy, Dalby, Ramsden, Mudge, Colby, Drummond, Steele, O'Farrell and, greatest of them all, Clarke. 相似文献
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《测量评论》2013,45(12):322-328
Abstract The Ordnance Survey after the War.—I might class the four years after the War, during which I remained at the head of the Ordnance Survey, as interesting but troublesome. As is well known, an entirely unreasonable impression was spread about that, now that the War was over, there would be a period of great prosperity, and that we should all live like fighting cocks. Well, things did not work out like that. There was a Select Committee on National Expenditure (1918), and this Committee recommended a lengthening of the period of revision of the large-scale maps of the United Kingdom and a consequent, ultimate, reduction of establishment by 500 men. The Treasury later on insisted on a reduction by 600, including Ireland. 相似文献
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《测量评论》2013,45(76):242-255
AbstractDuring the last year, the Air Survey Section, Field Division, Ordnance Survey, have had many visitors. Most of them have been surprised at what they have seen: some at the fact that we are able to make so much use of air photographs even in the largest scale surveys, and some at the small amount of information we seem able to extract from them. This paper is an attempt to give in some detail the ways in which air photographs are used to solve the problems of the Ordnance Survey, why they are used and their limitations for our purposes. 相似文献