Dear Tinho, 12 September 2012 Naïvely, why not try the following A-Z contact details: AddressGeographers' A-Z Map Company Limited
Fairfield Road
Borough Green
Sevenoaks
Kent
TN15 8PPRetail sales and web orders+44 (0)1732 783422Trade Sales+44 (0)1732 781000Trade account enquiries+44 (0)1732 783423Raw Digital Data+44 (0)1732 783413Copyright+44 (0)1732 783420Map Content and Enquiries+44 (0)1732 781000
With best wishes, Neil Dr Neil Davidson MA, DM, FRCP, FRCPE
43 Blackford Road
Grange
Edinburgh
EH9 2DT
United Kingdom
( (landline) +44 (0)131 667 3960
(mobile) +44 (0)779 150 8160
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Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 12:25:38 +0000
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Subject: Dating a Geographer's A–Z Street Atlas
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I recently wished to date Geographer's A–Z Street Atlas of Liverpool on which I found the code DDB. On Wikipedia I found the following interpretation. Can anyone vouch for its veracity?
“On all their maps, there is a 3 or 4 letter code in one of the corners, often the one containing the key. These letters represent numbers, which are the cartographic date, in the form (M)MYY. There is at least one scheme in use, but possibly also a second.
One scheme is JIHGFEDCBA, for the numbers 1 through 9 and 0, so that HFD would be 357, or March 1957. This seems to be used on all of their maps not in book form (it may be used in the book form ones, but that has not been confirmed).”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographer%27s_A%E2%80%93Z_Street_Atlas#Dating_old_maps
The date that it gives(July 1979) seems reasonable for the map in question.
Best wishes
Tinho
Ps I naively included the word ‘dating’ in my original google search, and was offered sites that were not at all what I wished for!
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Antonio da Cruz (Tinho) [log in to unmask]
Map Curator,
Department of Geography, School of Environmental Sciences,
Roxby Building, University of Liverpool, LIVERPOOL L69 7ZT
Telephone: 0151 794 2844
Fax: 0151 794 2866
Please note: I do not work on Thursdays.
