Heavily used sheets, such as Landranger 139 and adjacent sheets here in
Birmingham, definitely wear out quickly if used as folded maps. For use in
the library flat sheets, in acetate sleeves, are far more durable. While it
is true that the covers could be trimmed off folded maps, and these could
then be flattened out, why should we have to go to this trouble for
something that was flat and without a cover in the first place? Or does
Ordnance Survey hope we'll buy extra maps because we know some will wear
out?
Probably not, but, on a more serious note, however a folded map is
flattened out, the line of the fold remains as a potential line of
weakness, liable to tearing.
Richard Abbott
Local Studies and History
Central Library
Chamberlain Square
Birmingham
B3 3HQ
tel 0121 303 4549
fax 0121 464 0993
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