I'm very pleased to publicise the good news that the Charles Close
Society have just made available all their sheet corner data for all
Ordnance Survey One-Inch and 1:50,000 map Series of Great Britain and
Ireland, as well as the 1:25,000 Provisional Series of United Kingdom in
a single KML file at the address:
http://www.charlesclosesociety.org/KMLFILE
This information has been behind the CCS Sheetfinder (
http://www.charlesclosesociety.org/CCS-Sheetfinder ) for some years, as
well as within Ed Fielden's Coordinate Convertor (
http://www.fieldenmaps.info/cconv/ ). However, for those of us who
don't speak fluent Javascript, the availability now as a KML file is
very much more useful. The KML file can display each series individually
in Google Earth, with sheet attribute information available for each
polygon, and can be easily read by other desktop GIS, such as QGIS and
ArcGIS. This sheet boundary information is really useful for forming
clickable indexes as well as for georeferencing map series.
I'm very grateful to John Davies and Alastair Davies for all their help
in working on this, and making these available to the map community.
Chris
Chris Fleet
Senior Map Curator
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