Anquet Maps

theo said:

With Anquet you can see 'all the way' and fly a route from
Land's End to John O'Groats. You can stop anywhere you
like and have a look around. I almost feel like a
millionaire with my private helicopter.

Great, isn't it?

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It would be perfect with aerial photography.

Yeah. Anquet please take note!

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I dont care about heights... Just show me what the place
looks like and how hard it fights back..

Seems such a minor quibble. I'll tell you what I hate
about Harvey's

DumDUM.....

They made them 1:25k iso 1:40k More paper flapping and no
extra detail.. 1:25k allows meaningful 10m contours too, but
they dont use them. The 1:40s were very handy sizes and a
joy to use.

Richard Webb

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theo said:

With Anquet you can see 'all the way' and fly a route
from Land's End to John O'Groats. You can stop anywhere
you like and have a look around. I almost feel like a
millionaire with my private helicopter.

Great, isn't it?

Quoted message said:

It would be perfect with aerial photography.

Yeah. Anquet please take note!

Unfortunately, Aerial photography for Scotland is not yet
available. Perhaps when it is we'll see some competition
from Anquet and MM to provide it 1st?

druidh

On Mon, 10 May 2004 23:26:42 GMT, [email hidden] (RJ

Webb) said:

I dont care about heights... Just show me what the place
looks like and how hard it fights back..

no makey sense, iydmmss; if I want to get from where I am to
another place and its obvious to make that journey its place
is going to "fight back" then its usually because the place
I'm wanting to get to is [much] higher than the place I'm
in. So, re-reading the first sentence its should be that
"absolute" heights are waht's not cared about.

But going back to part of the original point being made; how
useful would it be if contours were drawn at, say, 1m
intervals? You would still get the topographic information
required showing the relative lay of the land. The absolute
height would be shown. Would it show "how hard it fights
back? If the steepness of the terrain is the principal
contributory factor in such a measure then I'd suggest not;
it would, ultimately be shown but in such a confusing manner
that it would be self defeating, ergo I'd suggest that the
idea that the countour interval is fundamentally is of no
consequence is flawed. So it would seem to me that it would
be daft to space the contours at such a frequency, similarly
a 15m interval moves away from being useful into the realms
of quirkyness.

It seems to be that a compromise / middle-ground is so
obviously required and it happens that the 10m interval
fultills this criteria [better than any other option]. A 15m
interval is loopy, especially when 10m is so well
established, and reeks simply of a company wanting to find
some way of differentiating itself from the competition, in
this instance to the detriment of its users?

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It seems to be that a compromise / middle-ground is so
obviously required and it happens that the 10m interval
fultills this criteria [better than any other option]. A
15m interval is loopy, especially when 10m is so well
established, and reeks simply of a company wanting to find
some way of differentiating itself from the competition, in
this instance to the detriment of its users?

Simply a hangover from the days when they put good
cartographic practice first.. Long gone sadly.

10m was too tight for a 1:40k in a mountain area, they would
blur together or be ommitted OS style on steep ground.
Clarity is vital in the orienteering tradition, and Harvey
maps were once specialist O maps. 20m is too big a gap and
detail would be lost. SK the Norwegian mapping agency use
20m due to the very steep terrain there.

The Dartmoor map was 10m. Harveys should use 10m now most of
their maps are 1:25k. 15m is ideal for 1:40km.

The OS use two intervals too, on the 1:25k maps 5m would
leave us with brown paper in hilly country, so the interval
there is 10m. This is clearer , but at a price.. confusion
where a 5m abuts a 10m map. Sometimes an overlap gives an
area mapped under both intervals. Wether Hill South of
Edinburgh is an example.

It was worse once, when the 1:50k maps were either 50' or
10m.. 15m is easy to work out heights, 50' rendered as
metres was a nightmare.

Richard Webb

Just as an after thought I have compared the ISBN given from
the amazon.co.uk site for the Lakes 1:25 000 map with the
ISBN given on the anquet site for the Lakes OS CD, and guess
what!!! There the same!

Links to the pages at

zon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1904809111/ref=pd_sim_b_dp_1/026-
7469755-7284403

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Yorkshire Dales CD also agrees

So amazon.co.uk is selling the new OS maps for £56. Agree?

Cheers

Andy

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Just been looking at getting round to buying the Anquet
1:25 000 OS CD

ROM.

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RRP is £80 but I thought I would have a look at
amazon.co.uk and I came up with this result

zon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1904809138/ref=pd_sim_b_dp_1/026-
7469755-7284403

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Seems to say the item is a book priced at £56 but sounds
like it is the CD ROM.

Any ideas as it could be quite a good buy. Other areas are
also available priced the same

Cheers

Andy

Now if these were the OS maps I'd be in

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like a shot for a full set at that price.

See my latest post. I would say they are the OS map for sale

Cheers

Andy

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Just as an after thought I have compared the ISBN given
from the amazon.co.uk site for the Lakes 1:25 000 map with
the ISBN given on the anquet site for the Lakes OS CD, and
guess what!!! There the same!

Links to the pages at

amazon.co.ukref=pdOpen ↗
_sim_b_dp_1/02 6-7469755-7284403

anquet.co.ukproduct.aspOpen ↗

Yorkshire Dales CD also agrees

So amazon.co.uk is selling the new OS maps for £56. Agree?

Yes but what about availability, i noted a little while
back that there was a 'large' difference in cost but the
item(s) weren't off the shelf as i understood the spiel

Paul Saunders said:

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I often see MM and Anquet mentioned; are the others not
worth considering ?

Don't know. Haven't tried them so I can't comment.

They're cheap to try : there's a demo download on the
tracklogs website, and you can buy individual site-centred
50K maps for 12 quid. More expensive than the equivalent
paper (unless you wear them out faster than they go out of
date), but at least you don't have to buy a whole region.

-adrian

Thanks for that, reaching for credit card

Mike

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Now if these were the OS maps I'd be in

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like a shot for a full set at that price.

See my latest post. I would say they are the OS map
for sale

Cheers

Andy

The Anquet maps at Amazon selling for £56 are the OS maps
selling at £80 at Anquet.

Just received my order from Amazon of the Lakes, Peaks,
Dales and Snowdonia so am now in seventh heaven planning all
sorts of trips.

Mike Mason

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Thanks for that, reaching for credit card

Mike

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Now if these were the OS maps I'd be in

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like a shot for a full set at that price.

See my latest post. I would say they are the OS map
for sale

Cheers

Andy

And I have just bought 4 from mapkiosk.com for £75. I wish I had known.
Amazon don't appear to have the 1:50,000 series though, do they?

Michael Elcock

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The Anquet maps at Amazon selling for £56 are the OS maps
selling at £80

at

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Anquet.

Just received my order from Amazon of the Lakes, Peaks,
Dales and

Snowdonia

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so am now in seventh heaven planning all sorts of trips.

Mike Mason

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Thanks for that, reaching for credit card

Mike

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Now if these were the OS maps I'd be in
> like a shot for a full set at that price.

See my latest post. I would say they are the OS map
for sale

Cheers

Andy

No don't think so. Did a search of Amazon on Anquet and
just got the
1:25,000 maps

Mike

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And I have just bought 4 from mapkiosk.com for £75. I wish
I had known. Amazon don't appear to have the 1:50,000
series though, do they?

Michael Elcock

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Quoted message said:

The Anquet maps at Amazon selling for £56 are the OS
maps selling at £80

at

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Anquet.

Just received my order from Amazon of the Lakes, Peaks,
Dales and

Snowdonia

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so am now in seventh heaven planning all sorts of trips.

Mike Mason

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Thanks for that, reaching for credit card

Mike

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> Now if these were the OS maps I'd be in
> > like a shot for a full set at that price.
>
> See my latest post. I would say they are the OS map
> for sale
>
> Cheers
>
> Andy
>
>

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No don't think so. Did a search of Amazon on Anquet and
just got the
1:25,000 maps

In which case I'll have a look and perhaps try the Dales
section, although for interactive use with a GPS I still
don't think the system compares with using OziExplorer.

I can print scanned maps with or without waypoints and neat
tracks, upload tracks to the Summit which I use for
navigating by car because it has a nice thick track display.

If you can do the latter trick using Anquet it would be
handy, but then I'd have to decide between 50,000 and
25,000. ;-)
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Gordon

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Mike Mason <[email hidden]> wrote

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No don't think so. Did a search of Amazon on Anquet and
just got the
1:25,000 maps

If you can do the latter trick using Anquet it would be
handy, but then I'd have to decide between 50,000 and
25,000. ;-)

I did a search on Amazon last night re these maps from
Anquet. I spent over half an hour searching varying
categories with no luck. So question what is the start
point for this search. Software, DVDs, maps. Anquet (comes
back with naquet) ? To think a few weeks back i did
actually find these maps and noted a price a lot lower
than advertised BUT i cant replicate the bloody exercise
at this point of time.

Mike Mason <[email hidden]> wrote

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Hi Gordon

You assume I use Anquet for this, which to some extent I do
but my main source of gps software is Ozi.

As for car navigation I use TomTom 3 loaded on an Ipaq and
a Garmin Vista hooked upto the Ipaq. Better than any small
gps for car navigation and I get a lovely female giving me
directions as a bonus.

I usually have one in the passenger seat, but I haven't
taught her to master either GPS or maps!
--
Gordon

Hi Gordon

You assume I use Anquet for this, which to some extent I do
but my main source of gps software is Ozi.

As for car navigation I use TomTom 3 loaded on an Ipaq and a
Garmin Vista hooked upto the Ipaq. Better than any small gps
for car navigation and I get a lovely female giving me
directions as a bonus.

Mike

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Mike Mason <[email hidden]> wrote

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No don't think so. Did a search of Amazon on Anquet and
just got the
1:25,000 maps

In which case I'll have a look and perhaps try the Dales
section, although for interactive use with a GPS I still
don't think the system compares with using OziExplorer.

I can print scanned maps with or without waypoints and
neat tracks, upload tracks to the Summit which I use for
navigating by car because it has a nice thick track
display.

If you can do the latter trick using Anquet it would be
handy, but then I'd have to decide between 50,000 and
25,000. ;-)
--
Gordon

On the main amazon.co.uk page type in anquet. Done. They
come up as books but they are the CD-ROMs.

Cheers

Andy

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Gordon <[email hidden]> writes

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Mike Mason <[email hidden]> wrote

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No don't think so. Did a search of Amazon on Anquet and
just got the
1:25,000 maps

If you can do the latter trick using Anquet it would be
handy, but then I'd have to decide between 50,000 and
25,000. ;-)

I did a search on Amazon last night re these maps from
Anquet. I spent over half an hour searching varying
categories with no luck. So question what is the start
point for this search. Software, DVDs, maps. Anquet
(comes back with naquet) ? To think a few weeks back i
did actually find these maps and noted a price a lot
lower than advertised BUT i cant replicate the bloody
exercise at this point of time.

Quoted message said:

On the main amazon.co.uk page type in anquet. Done. They
come up as books but they are the CD-ROMs.

Cheers

Thanks for that heads up. i was trying everything but that
approach grr!!!

RJ Webb said:

I dont care about heights... Just show me what the place
looks like and how hard it fights back..

Seems such a minor quibble.

Yes, it was a minor quibble. I like Harvey's Maps.

I'll tell you what I hate about Harvey's

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DumDUM.....

They made them 1:25k iso 1:40k

Ah! So that's three things! I knew there were three
things........

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