[Talk-GB] 1:25,000 OOC OS maps - Update

[Michael Collinson]

Just catching up so a late posting. Thanks to Andy and Mike for this. 
Even with Bing imagery and OS OpenData, the 1:25k series are a great 
source of local names in rural areas and of historic features, 
(archeological sites, tumuli, stone rings, battle fields, roman roads, 
old mining sites and more) for a historical map of the UK that is slowly 
evolving thanks to Graham Jones.

My personal wish-list to see soon: anything up the northern Pennines and 
Yorkshire, Durham mining areas.

Mike

On 27/08/2011 20:41, Andy Robinson wrote:
> As many may know I've been collecting OS 1:25k provisional edition map
> sheets for the last few years. I'd got to around a third of the set of 2027
> sheets before the summer. As a result of a very generous donation from the
> University of Glasgow (Thanks go to Mike Shand) I now have 66% of the full
> set. In addition I have many different sheet editions for the north of the
> country and Scotland and a great many duplicates, some of which will be sold
> to help raise funds to secure the remaining 1/3rd of the set that are still
> needed for full coverage.
>
> I've now finished cataloguing the provisional series maps from Glasgow, over
> 1850 sheets in all, and you can find the updated table and graphical chart
> showing coverage from the links at:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Provisional/First_Edition
>
> The next job will be to restart rectification and tiling to enable their use
> in the OSM editing tools and other purposes. Because of the sudden influx
> I'm looking at possibilities of scanning off site and distributing the
> rectification process, all suggestions and offers on that would be most
> appreciated.
>
> Ping me if you have any questions or have an area of coverage you would
> particularly like to see available soon.
>
> You can see the current tiled sheets at:
> http://ooc.openstreetmap.org/?zoom=6&lat=53.96418&lon=-3.92646&layers=000B0
>
> Cheers
> Andy
>