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

[phil at trigpoint.me.uk]

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.

Phil


On 24/02/2012 12:31 Andy Robinson wrote:

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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