[OSM-talk] Map Co-ordinates for towns, etc in UK

[Andy Robinson]

If you refer to old OS maps the location of the place name seems most often
to be positioned in relation to certain specific features. Where there is a
parish church they seem to use that, where not its often the post office or
the village pub, if none of these are present then some central other
communal  feature of the hamlet for instance. Of course this could just be a
be cartographic approach taken by the OS.

Cheers
Andy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lester Caine [mailto:lester at lsces.co.uk]
> Sent: 24 February 2012 09:20
> To: OSM Talk
> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Map Co-ordinates for towns, etc in UK
> 
> kenneth gonsalves wrote:
> >> Can some one advise me of the official policy for locating the centre
> >> >  of towns in the UK, i.e. the spot on the map for a point
> >> > representing  the town and used as the Zero Point for measuring
> >> > distances to other  towns.
> > in India it is usually the head post office.
> 
> In the UK nowadays you will be lucky to find a post office at all ... ;)
> 
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