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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">In my experience as a rambler, who enjoys a pint. The church and pub in a village are not far apart, so in an unknown village if you want to find the pub, head for the church.</p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">Phil</p></div><br><div id="fenix-reply-header"><p>On 24/02/2012 12:31 Andy Robinson wrote:<br></p></div><div id="fenix-quoted-body">If you refer to old OS maps the location of the place name seems most often<br>to be positioned in relation to certain specific features. Where there is a<br>parish church they seem to use that, where not its often the post office or<br>the village pub, if none of these are present then some central other<br>communal feature of the hamlet for instance. Of course this could just be a<br>be cartographic approach taken by the OS.<br><br>Cheers<br>Andy<br><br>> -----Original Message-----<br>> From: Lester Caine [mailto:lester@lsces.co.uk]<br>> Sent: 24 February 2012 09:20<br>> To: OSM Talk<br>> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Map Co-ordinates for towns, etc in UK<br>> <br>> kenneth gonsalves wrote:<br>> >> Can some one advise me of the official policy for locating the centre<br>> >> > of towns in the UK, i.e. the spot on the map for a point<br>> >> > representing the town and used as the Zero Point for measuring<br>> >> > distances to other towns.<br>> > in India it is usually the head post office.<br>> <br>> In the UK nowadays you will be lucky to find a post office at all ... ;)<br>> <br>> --<br>> Lester Caine - G8HFL<br>> -----------------------------<br>> Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact<br>> L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve -<br>> http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop -<br>> http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php<br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> talk mailing list<br>> talk@openstreetmap.org<br>> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>talk mailing list<br>talk@openstreetmap.org<br>http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk<br></div><br></body></html>