[Talk-GB] "secret" site

[Robert Skedgell]

Is it mapped or does it appear to be redacted on NLS's out-of-copyright
OS maps?

On 28/06/2020 09:27, Tony OSM wrote:
> I question the meaning of the word 'secret' when used in a newspaper. My
> observations are that secret means the reporter didn't know about it.
> 
> Tony
> 
> On 28/06/2020 00:47, David Woolley wrote:
>> On 27/06/2020 23:37, Dave Love wrote:
>>> I was going to map a covered reservoir round here that I've known from
>>> my youth, but I happened to find an article about it from the local
>>> paper suggesting the location is secret, though it's listed in
>>> Historic England.  (It's not far from a "sensitive government
>>> establishment" that no-one locally knew about before it ceased to be
>>> secret :-/)
>>> Should I not map it, or pretend I didn't see the article?
>>>
>>
>> How would another mapper verify this?  I normally think that people
>> interpret the map only what's on the ground rule too literally, but in
>> this case, I'd suggest the moral thing to do is to ignore your local
>> knowledge an only map what can be seen, without guessing its
>> significance.
>>
>> (There are some road signs entitled "secret bunker", e.g. for Kelvedon
>> Hatch, but I don't think this is the case here.
>>
>> On the other hand, there used to be part of the North Yorkshire moors
>> that had "undefined" written over it on OS maps.)
>>
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