Odd contour lines

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Have a look at this Landranger map extract...

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=213500&Y=873500&A=Y&Z=3

or http://tinyurl.com/2zz8f9

Notice anything odd about the contour lines on the right-hand side?
Looks like they're using a different font for the height labels, and
the lines themselves seem somehow more jagged and less "smoothed" than
normal.

Is this a new style, or a sign that these sections of map have come
from some digital source rather than normal Landranger data, or
something else entirely?

Rob

Unless I'm missing something here it looks the same as on my memory map
copy.

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Mike
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Have a look at this Landranger map extract...

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=213500&Y=873500&A=Y&Z=3

orhttp://tinyurl.com/2zz8f9

Notice anything odd about the contour lines on the right-hand side?
Looks like they're using a different font for the height labels, and
the lines themselves seem somehow more jagged and less "smoothed" than
normal.

Is this a new style, or a sign that these sections of map have come
from some digital source rather than normal Landranger data, or
something else entirely?

Rob

Looks like a map update with a new font being used. You can scan
north & south and find that the font changes stop at the major grid
line boundaries. Nearby, at:
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=240845&y=859990&z=4&ar=Y
you can see an artefact of the update.

Colin

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Have a look at this Landranger map extract...

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=213500&Y=873500&A=Y&Z=3

or http://tinyurl.com/2zz8f9

Notice anything odd about the contour lines on the right-hand side?
Looks like they're using a different font for the height labels, and
the lines themselves seem somehow more jagged and less "smoothed" than
normal.

Is this a new style, or a sign that these sections of map have come
from some digital source rather than normal Landranger data, or
something else entirely?

Rob

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Are you guys bored!!

Personally I find contours fascinating. The squiggles and wiggles - are
they invented or actual on the ground?

I wish there were a book telling me how maps are created. The OS used to
publish one (maybe 40 years ago) with interesting historical background
but they've never heard of it now; I asked them.

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Bernard Hill
Selkirk, Scotland

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In article <[email hidden]>, Jack Livesey
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Are you guys bored!!

Personally I find contours fascinating. The squiggles and wiggles - are
they invented or actual on the ground?

I wish there were a book telling me how maps are created. The OS used
to publish one (maybe 40 years ago) with interesting historical
background but they've never heard of it now; I asked them.

I have a copy of that one, and also a much smaller one from the 1930s
with a lot of interesting historical detail. If there's any special
subject in it that might interest you I could always scan a few relevant
pages and email them to you.
--
Chris Morriss

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In message <[email hidden]>, Bernard
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In article <[email hidden]>, Jack Livesey
<[email hidden]> writes

Quoted message said:

Are you guys bored!!

Personally I find contours fascinating. The squiggles and wiggles -
are they invented or actual on the ground?

I wish there were a book telling me how maps are created. The OS used
to publish one (maybe 40 years ago) with interesting historical
background but they've never heard of it now; I asked them.

I have a copy of that one, and also a much smaller one from the 1930s
with a lot of interesting historical detail. If there's any special
subject in it that might interest you I could always scan a few
relevant pages and email them to you.

If you have a title/author/ISBN or whatever I am sure abebooks
(www.abebooks.co.uk) can spring a copy from someplace. I'd be interested
too.

--
GSV Three Minds in a Can
8,963 Km walked. 1,746Km PROWs surveyed. 31.7% complete.

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In message <[email hidden]>, Bernard
Hill <[email hidden]> writes

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In article <[email hidden]>, Jack Livesey
<[email hidden]> writes

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Are you guys bored!!

Personally I find contours fascinating. The squiggles and wiggles -
are they invented or actual on the ground?

I wish there were a book telling me how maps are created. The OS used
to publish one (maybe 40 years ago) with interesting historical
background but they've never heard of it now; I asked them.

I have a copy of that one, and also a much smaller one from the 1930s
with a lot of interesting historical detail. If there's any special
subject in it that might interest you I could always scan a few
relevant pages and email them to you.

Very kind. However I suspect the questions I want answering have
different answers to those they had 40 yrs ago...

--
Bernard Hill
Selkirk, Scotland

Bitstring <[email hidden]>, from the
wonderful person Bernard Hill <[email hidden]> said

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In article <[email hidden]>, Chris Morriss
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In message <[email hidden]>, Bernard
Hill <[email hidden]> writes

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In article <[email hidden]>, Jack Livesey
<[email hidden]> writes
>Are you guys bored!!

Personally I find contours fascinating. The squiggles and wiggles -
are they invented or actual on the ground?

I wish there were a book telling me how maps are created. The OS used
to publish one (maybe 40 years ago) with interesting historical
background but they've never heard of it now; I asked them.

I have a copy of that one, and also a much smaller one from the 1930s
with a lot of interesting historical detail. If there's any special
subject in it that might interest you I could always scan a few
relevant pages and email them to you.

Very kind. However I suspect the questions I want answering have
different answers to those they had 40 yrs ago...

If you want current answers, then maybe the BCS are the people to ask
(for books, info, or whatever):

http://www.cartography.org.uk/

--
GSV Three Minds in a Can
8,963 Km walked. 1,746Km PROWs surveyed. 31.7% complete.

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Bitstring <[email hidden]>, from the wonderful
person Chris Morriss <[email hidden]> said

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In message <[email hidden]>, Bernard
Hill <[email hidden]> writes

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In article <[email hidden]>, Jack Livesey
<[email hidden]> writes
>Are you guys bored!!

Personally I find contours fascinating. The squiggles and wiggles -
are they invented or actual on the ground?

I wish there were a book telling me how maps are created. The OS used
to publish one (maybe 40 years ago) with interesting historical
background but they've never heard of it now; I asked them.

I have a copy of that one, and also a much smaller one from the 1930s
with a lot of interesting historical detail. If there's any special
subject in it that might interest you I could always scan a few
relevant pages and email them to you.

If you have a title/author/ISBN or whatever I am sure abebooks
(www.abebooks.co.uk) can spring a copy from someplace. I'd be
interested too.

The book is called "Ordnance Survey Maps: a descriptive manual".
Published by the Ordnance Survey in 1975. The author was JB Harley. No
ISBN number appears anywhere in it (when did ISBN numbers become
widespread?)
It's a substantial A4 hardback book with blue covers. I got mine (in
excellent condition) a few years ago when I spotted it in a second-hand
bookshop.
--
Chris Morriss

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Bitstring <[email hidden]>, from the wonderful
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In message <[email hidden]>, Bernard
Hill <[email hidden]> writes

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>I wish there were a book telling me how maps are created. The OS used
>to publish one (maybe 40 years ago) with interesting historical
>background but they've never heard of it now; I asked them.
>
>
I have a copy of that one, and also a much smaller one from the 1930s
with a lot of interesting historical detail. If there's any special
subject in it that might interest you I could always scan a few
relevant pages and email them to you.

If you have a title/author/ISBN or whatever I am sure abebooks
(www.abebooks.co.uk) can spring a copy from someplace. I'd be
interested too.

The book is called "Ordnance Survey Maps: a descriptive manual".
Published by the Ordnance Survey in 1975. The author was JB Harley.

That's enough for abe to find several copies amongst aother things:

http://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/SearchResults?sortby=3&sts=t&an=harley&y=8&x=70&kn=ordnance

http://tinyurl.com/28vqhz
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Phil Cook, last hill: Angletarn Pikes via Beda Fell.
http://www.p-t-cook.freeserve.co.uk/May07/martin9.htm

In article <[email hidden]>, GSV Three Minds in a Can
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If you want current answers, then maybe the BCS are the people to ask
(for books, info, or whatever):

LOL! Thought you meant the British Computer Society!
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Bernard Hill, MBCS
Selkirk, Scotland