OS Select maps

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Andrew Conroy said:

Hi folks,

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I'm looking at getting an OS Select 1:25000 map ready for the North
Downs Challenge walk this year (saves the walk keep swapping between a
couple of maps). However, I wondered if the folded version was as
waterproof as a standard OS map? I've seen a flat OS Select map bought
(from a map shop rather than direct from OS) and it was printed on a
large format inkjet printer, so the ink would smudge horribly if it got
a bit wet, not what you want out on the Downs in the pouring rain.

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Anyone got any experience of these?

I can't believe nobody has any experience of using OS Select maps!
Somebody out there must have got one, so what's it like?

Andrew

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In article <[email hidden]>,

Andrew Conroy said:

Hi folks,

Quoted message said:

I'm looking at getting an OS Select 1:25000 map ready for the North
Downs Challenge walk this year (saves the walk keep swapping between a
couple of maps). However, I wondered if the folded version was as
waterproof as a standard OS map?

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

I've seen a flat OS Select map bought
(from a map shop rather than direct from OS) and it was printed on a
large format inkjet printer, so the ink would smudge horribly if it got
a bit wet, not what you want out on the Downs in the pouring rain.

I can't imagine OS selling any map that was likely
to smudge in the wet.
A search on the website indicates the map are
printed using a high quality inkjet printer,
maybe high quality means the inks are water proof?

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Anyone got any experience of these?

Sorry, I don't have any experience of these custom
maps, you could try emailing them, they're usually quite prompt with the
replies.

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I can't believe nobody has any experience of using OS Select maps!
Somebody out there must have got one, so what's it like?

Andrew

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In article <[email hidden]>,

Andrew Conroy said:

Hi folks,

Quoted message said:

I'm looking at getting an OS Select 1:25000 map ready for the North
Downs Challenge walk this year (saves the walk keep swapping between a
couple of maps). However, I wondered if the folded version was as
waterproof as a standard OS map? I've seen a flat OS Select map bought
(from a map shop rather than direct from OS) and it was printed on a
large format inkjet printer, so the ink would smudge horribly if it got
a bit wet, not what you want out on the Downs in the pouring rain.

Quoted message said:

Anyone got any experience of these?

I can't believe nobody has any experience of using OS Select maps!
Somebody out there must have got one, so what's it like?

Andrew - a significant number of people in this NG already have Anquet,
Memory, Fugawi etc. As that fulfills all the OS Select function - and more,
you might indeed be asking in the wrong place.

druidh

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On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 23:42:26 GMT
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JeffC (JeffC <[email hidden]>😉 wrote :

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Eh?
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What???

Jeff C

Andrew Conroy said:

I can't believe nobody has any experience of using OS Select maps!
Somebody out there must have got one, so what's it like?

I bought a couple just before Christmas (not yet used in anger) and they
say that are water resistant.

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Bitstring <[email hidden]>, from the wonderful
person Andrew Conroy <[email hidden]> said

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In article <[email hidden]>,

Andrew Conroy said:

Hi folks,

Quoted message said:

I'm looking at getting an OS Select 1:25000 map ready for the North
Downs Challenge walk this year (saves the walk keep swapping between a
couple of maps). However, I wondered if the folded version was as
waterproof as a standard OS map? I've seen a flat OS Select map bought
(from a map shop rather than direct from OS) and it was printed on a
large format inkjet printer, so the ink would smudge horribly if it got
a bit wet, not what you want out on the Downs in the pouring rain.

Quoted message said:

Anyone got any experience of these?

I can't believe nobody has any experience of using OS Select maps!
Somebody out there must have got one, so what's it like?

I have one hung on the wall - it does not look very waterproof to me,
but I ain't-a-gonna wet it to check. For outside use I use tracklogs
software (www.tracklogs.co..uk) .. get a site-centred set of 1:25k
digital data, print some double sides A4 sheets at whatever scale I like
(usually 1:12500), stick them in A4 transparent pockets, seal the edges,
and take them anywhere. After 6 months or so (or a couple of uses
wrapping barbed wire fences. 8>.) they are knackered so I print some
more.

This is cheaper than paying OS select prices. and you get more maps. And
you can have 1:10k if you want to. And there's no folding to cope with.
And you cans scribble on them if you want to. And use them to load stuff
into your GPS.

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"Bootlaces" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 23:42:26 GMT
in <news:[email hidden]>
JeffC (JeffC <[email hidden]>😉 wrote :

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Eh?
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Oh dear, I'm getting confused now, 'tis trouble of reading URC and URW on
the same night, plus I'll have to stop drinking the strong stuff, Jersey
Gold Top goes straight to my head :-)

Jeff (hic) C

Hi Andrew,
Got two select maps of the Torridon area last year,
although I ended up with four as the Post Office lost the first two and then
'found' and delivered them after two replacements had been dispatched They
came folded, one was v.badly creased, but all are still in use. The paper
has proven to be water repellent, but does feel different from the shop
bought Explorer and Landranger maps.

AW
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In article <[email hidden]>,

Andrew Conroy said:

Hi folks,

Quoted message said:

I'm looking at getting an OS Select 1:25000 map ready for the North
Downs Challenge walk this year (saves the walk keep swapping between a
couple of maps). However, I wondered if the folded version was as
waterproof as a standard OS map? I've seen a flat OS Select map bought
(from a map shop rather than direct from OS) and it was printed on a
large format inkjet printer, so the ink would smudge horribly if it got
a bit wet, not what you want out on the Downs in the pouring rain.

Quoted message said:

Anyone got any experience of these?

I can't believe nobody has any experience of using OS Select maps!
Somebody out there must have got one, so what's it like?

Andrew

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JeffC wrote on Sat, 15 Jan 2005 00:33:09 GMT....

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"Bootlaces" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Eh?

What???

Jeff, I think there is confusion because of the very odd way you have
your Outlook Express newsreader set up to post messages.

Starting from the top, there are a couple of lines of blank space.
Then your signature. Then the previous poster's message that you are
replying to. Then your reply.

This makes it appear that you've posted just a blank message, unless
the reader is determined and goes looking through the whole thing to
see what you've done with it.

The problem stems from Microsoft's assumption that you'll want to post
your reply at the top of the previous poster's message. That's not a
very good idea, so you post at the bottom, as most people prefer. But
you've got OE set up to insert your signature automatically, and it
still puts it at the top.

I would remove the automatic signature setting from Tools > Options >
Signatures. You can still insert it at the end of your message after
you've typed it, by using Insert > Signature.

Or get a different newsreader, which automatically puts your signature
at the bottom.

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The problem stems from Microsoft's assumption that you'll want to post
your reply at the top of the previous poster's message. That's not a
very good idea, so you ...

....should quote sufficient to give context and...

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...post at the bottom, as most people prefer.

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Tim Jackson said:

JeffC wrote on Sat, 15 Jan 2005 00:33:09 GMT....

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"Bootlaces" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Eh?

What???

Or get a different newsreader, which automatically puts your signature
at the bottom.

Or get OE-QuoteFix.

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4029.html

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Marc Cornelius said:

On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 22:45:38 +0000 (GMT), Andrew Conroy wrote:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

I can't believe nobody has any experience of using OS Select maps!
Somebody out there must have got one, so what's it like?

Quoted message said:

I bought a couple just before Christmas (not yet used in anger) and
they say that are water resistant.

Thanks, and to everyone else who replied as well. I've not got Anquet
etc. (haven't got a PC, I use Acorn RISC OS instead!) so can't reply on
printing my own :-( As there's 2/3 of us doing the North Downs Challenge
Walk together then we can split the cost and it's not that expensive that
way.

Andrew

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druidh said:

Andrew - a significant number of people in this NG already have Anquet,
Memory, Fugawi etc.

But do they have printers that can print on anything larger than A4?

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Marc Cornelius said:

druidh said:

Andrew - a significant number of people in this NG already have Anquet,
Memory, Fugawi etc.

But do they have printers that can print on anything larger than A4?

I believe that OS licensing restrictions prevent print at anything more
than A4 (although there are a number of ways around this). However, I
find that I'd rather have a few A4 sheets (or indeed even smaller) than
a larger sheet which has to be folded numerous ways to follow a path so
I don't normally consider this to be a disadvantage. Different of course
if your're after a display item.

druidh

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Andrew - a significant number of people in this NG already have Anquet,
Memory, Fugawi etc.

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But do they have printers that can print on anything larger than A4?

Shouldn't make any difference. The OS has decreed that A4 is as large as
you can have. But in practice it doesn't really matter. 2 sheets of A4
can be laminated back to back and provided the scale is sensible few
walkers would need more than that.

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druidh said:

Andrew - a significant number of people in this NG already have Anquet,
Memory, Fugawi etc.

But do they have printers that can print on anything larger than A4?

Wouldn't help - OS licensing restrictions set an upper limit of A4
printing (although there are kludges). Double sided A4 is actually
convenient, although I have to fold it to A5 before I can stuff it in a
trouser pocket anyway.

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A better way, download the map to a pocketpc.

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Bitstring <[email hidden]>, from the
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druidh said:

Andrew - a significant number of people in this NG already have Anquet,
Memory, Fugawi etc.

But do they have printers that can print on anything larger than A4?

Wouldn't help - OS licensing restrictions set an upper limit of A4
printing (although there are kludges). Double sided A4 is actually
convenient, although I have to fold it to A5 before I can stuff it in a
trouser pocket anyway.

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Bitstring <[email hidden]>, from the wonderful person
Kenneth Miles <[email hidden]> said

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A better way, download the map to a pocketpc.

Pocket PCs weight more than A4 paper and don't fold nearly as well. You
also can't use them to wrap barbed wire for an emergency stile. 8>.

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A better way, download the map to a pocketpc.

as long as you only intend to walk for a few hours (if lucky).

Give me long-life powered paper map any day. Plus it will be of a size
where you can actually read it, align a compass to take bearings, etc
etc.

There are some occasions where technology is not the answer.

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