Not my area of expertise, but a number of years ago I visited their
offices and was told that the OS had given them access to all their
historical editions for scanning so that they could ensure that they
never missed a quarry or a landfill site.
So x maps by y editions of z scales means a lot of maps :-)
Alan
Da Cruz, Antonio wrote:
> Dear friends,
>
> Do listen to the item on yesterday's Today Programme one the Russian
> maps of the UK. This consisted of an interview with Landmark who have,
> it appears, digitised many of the Old Soviet maps of the UK.
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/listenagain/thursday.shtml
> The item can be found at 7:38
>
> I was particularly intrigued when the interviewee (Richard Pawlyn,
> Property & Environment Managing Director, Landmark) noted in passing
> "... we run the largest archive of historic maps in the UK...".
> Anyone have a comment on that?
>
> I till have a copy of the OS statement to the BCS 'Russian military
> mapping of the UK', given at the 1997 symposium. The OS seemed quite
> anti anyone even thinking about Soviet mapping then, let alone
> possessing it.
> Best wishes
> Tinho
>
> ...............................
> Antonio da Cruz (Tinho) [log in to unmask]
> Map Curator, Department of Geography,
> Roxby Building University of Liverpool, LIVERPOOL L69 7ZT
> Telephone: 0151 794 2844
> Fax: 0151 794 2866
>
> See the British Archaeological Association web page
> http://www.britarch.ac.uk/baa
>
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