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Streetmap is showing OS maps again

Chris Stephens · 2004-01-16T01:26:01+00:00

Right now www.streetmap.co.uk is showing OS 1:50k maps once again, including the old trick of putting z=4 in the url to get a 5x5 tile. Anyone know if this is going to last? Have they sorted out their licensing issues with the OS? Chris Stephens

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Chris Stephens
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16 January 2004, 01:26 UTC #1

Right now www.streetmap.co.uk is showing OS 1:50k maps once again, including the old trick of
putting z=4 in the url to get a 5x5 tile. Anyone know if this is going to last? Have they sorted out
their licensing issues with the OS?
Chris Stephens

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Phil Cook
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16 January 2004, 01:27 UTC #2

Chris Stephens said:
Right now www.streetmap.co.uk is showing OS 1:50k maps once again, including the old trick of
putting z=4 in the url to get a 5x5 tile.
It never actually went away you just had to ask for it.
If you put in an OS grid ref XX123456 you get zoom level one (3x3 street) map and if you do a search
by placename you get the zoom level 5 (3x3 road) map by default.
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Anyone know if this is going to last? Have they sorted out their licensing issues with theOS?
They are having to lump it and pay the OS per download so they are trying to minimise the downloads
by not telling anybody about the 50k mapping. Clicking the + and - zoom buttons jumps straight from
the road map to the street map.
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Phil Cook looking north over the park to the "Westminster Gasworks"

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Paul Cummings
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16 January 2004, 01:27 UTC #3

"Chris Stephens" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Right now www.streetmap.co.uk is showing OS 1:50k maps once again,

including
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the old trick of putting z=4 in the url to get a 5x5 tile. Anyone know if this is going to last?
Have they sorted out their licensing issues with

the
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OS?
It's not working for me right now. I used your link, entered Kinder Scout and got the z=3 url at the
z=5 scale. Manually changing to z=4 had no effect.
They did promise me something would be done, but it's not obvious to me.
Am I being dense?
Have fun, Paul

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Simon Caldwell
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16 January 2004, 01:27 UTC #4

Chris Stephens said:
the old trick of putting z=4 in the url to get a 5x5 tile.
No need to change the url these days - there's a link just below each map labelled "Bigger map"
which gets you the 5x5 tile :-)

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David Hill
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16 January 2004, 01:27 UTC #5

Simon Caldwell <[email hidden]> writes
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Chris Stephens said:
the old trick of putting z=4 in the url to get a 5x5 tile.
No need to change the url these days - there's a link just below each map labelled "Bigger map"
which gets you the 5x5 tile :-)

What about an URL for screen grab utility My previous item of software that did the trick
wonderfully went up the river when the HD suffered a catastrophic failure.
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Phil Cook
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16 January 2004, 01:28 UTC #6

Paul Cummings said:

"Chris Stephens" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:
Right now www.streetmap.co.uk is showing OS 1:50k maps once again,

including
Quoted message said:
the old trick of putting z=4 in the url to get a 5x5 tile. Anyone know if this is going to last?
Have they sorted out their licensing issues with

the
Quoted message said:
OS?
It's not working for me right now. I used your link, entered Kinder Scout and got the z=3 url at
the z=5 scale. Manually changing to z=4 had no effect.
They did promise me something would be done, but it's not obvious to me.
Am I being dense?
Dunno
This URL works fine streetmap.co.ukstreetmap.dll
Also I have just got OS 50k on a search for placename that I wasn't getting short time ago.
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Kenneth Miles
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16 January 2004, 01:28 UTC #7

type in this url
streetmap.co.ukstreetmap.dll
Paul Cummings said:

"Chris Stephens" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:
Right now www.streetmap.co.uk is showing OS 1:50k maps once again,

including
Quoted message said:
the old trick of putting z=4 in the url to get a 5x5 tile. Anyone know if this is going to last?
Have they sorted out their licensing issues with

the
Quoted message said:
OS?
It's not working for me right now. I used your link, entered Kinder Scout and got the z=3 url at
the z=5 scale. Manually changing to z=4 had no effect.
They did promise me something would be done, but it's not obvious to me.
Am I being dense?
Have fun, Paul

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Mike Mason
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16 January 2004, 01:28 UTC #8

Yes that works ok but if I go straight to Streetmap this is what I get as a
URL
streetmap.co.uknewmap.srf
Mike
"Kenneth Miles" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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type in this url streetmap.co.ukstreetmap.dll
Paul Cummings said:

"Chris Stephens" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Right now www.streetmap.co.uk is showing OS 1:50k maps once again,

including
Quoted message said:
the old trick of putting z=4 in the url to get a 5x5 tile. Anyone know

if
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this is going to last? Have they sorted out their licensing issues

with
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the
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OS?
It's not working for me right now. I used your link, entered Kinder

Scout
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and got the z=3 url at the z=5 scale. Manually changing to z=4 had no effect.
They did promise me something would be done, but it's not obvious to me.
Am I being dense?
Have fun, Paul

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Chris
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16 January 2004, 01:28 UTC #9

david hill said:
What about an URL for screen grab utility

techsmith.comdefault.asp

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Paul Cummings
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16 January 2004, 01:28 UTC #10

"Phil Cook" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Paul Cummings said:

"Chris Stephens" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Right now www.streetmap.co.uk is showing OS 1:50k maps once again,

including
Quoted message said:
the old trick of putting z=4 in the url to get a 5x5 tile. Anyone know

if
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Quoted message said:
Quoted message said:
this is going to last? Have they sorted out their licensing issues

with
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Quoted message said:
the
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OS?
It's not working for me right now. I used your link, entered Kinder

Scout
Quoted message said:
Quoted message said:
and got the z=3 url at the z=5 scale. Manually changing to z=4 had no effect.
They did promise me something would be done, but it's not obvious to me.
Am I being dense?
Dunno
This URL works fine streetmap.co.ukstreetmap.dll
Also I have just got OS 50k on a search for placename that I wasn't

getting
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short time ago.
It's all started to work for me on the 50K scales now. I guess it was a gradual roll out of the maps
rather than the whole country in one go.
Have fun, Paul

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Mike Mason
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16 January 2004, 01:29 UTC #11

and to answer my own stupid remark if I change 3&sv to 4&sv I get a 5 x 5 square.
Mike
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Yes that works ok but if I go straight to Streetmap this is what I get as

a
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URL

streetmap.co.uknewmap.srf
hp=newsearch.srf&dn=568
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Mike
"Kenneth Miles" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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type in this url streetmap.co.ukstreetmap.dll
Paul Cummings said:

"Chris Stephens" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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> Right now www.streetmap.co.uk is showing OS 1:50k maps once again,
including
> the old trick of putting z=4 in the url to get a 5x5 tile. Anyone

know
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if
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> this is going to last? Have they sorted out their licensing issues

with
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the
> OS?
It's not working for me right now. I used your link, entered Kinder

Scout
Quoted message said:
Quoted message said:
and got the z=3 url at the z=5 scale. Manually changing to z=4 had no effect.
They did promise me something would be done, but it's not obvious to

me.
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Am I being dense?
Have fun, Paul

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Paul Cummings
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16 January 2004, 01:29 UTC #12

"Mike Mason" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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and to answer my own stupid remark if I change 3&sv to 4&sv I get a 5 x 5 square.
Mike
I don't want to get pedantic, but you are actually changing z=3 to z=4 to change the zoom from
level 3 to 4.
It's started working for me now too, so I'm not sure why I had problems yesterday after some people
got it working. Probably they put area by area live and I happened to try Kinder Scout before it had
gone live.
Have fun, Paul

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Mike Mason
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16 January 2004, 01:30 UTC #13

"Paul Cummings" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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"Mike Mason" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:n09wb.9167$506.77194383@news-
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and to answer my own stupid remark if I change 3&sv to 4&sv I get a 5 x

5
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square.
Mike
I don't want to get pedantic, but you are actually changing z=3 to z=4 to change the zoom from
level 3 to 4.
It's started working for me now too, so I'm not sure why I had problems yesterday after some
people got it working. Probably they put area by

area
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live and I happened to try Kinder Scout before it had gone live.
Have fun, Paul

Point taken, just me being thick again.
Mike Mason

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