Map collection coming along nicely 👀 mostly #OrdnanceSurvey 7th and early 8th series

Ordnance Survey maps are the best printed maps I have ever seen. Some of their data has been made available for free download, now I "merely" need to find out how/if I can use them.🤔

Are there any ready-to-use "apps" that can use/display these data files?

Free OS OpenData Map Downloads | Free Vector & Raster Map Data

https://osdatahub.os.uk/downloads/open

#OrdnanceSurvey #OpenData #maps

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #StuartMaconiesFreakZone

Ordnance Survey:
🎵 Nomos Part III - An Phadair

#OrdnanceSurvey

https://open.spotify.com/track/7iCwtyg3Oiu0V1HKammf35

https://scintillarecordings.bandcamp.com/track/part-iii-an-phadair

Old #WindMills on #Anglesey: using the place name data from old #OrdnanceSurvey maps collected by #GB1900 to add things (windmills) to #OpenStreetMap

https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/SK53/diary/401114

Images from : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Windmills_in_Anglesey

Illustrated by screen grabs of #OpenCycleMap and #Sustrans overlay on the #OrdnanceSurvey OSMaps base layer (partially OSM).

Here the issues are straightforward: an unsigned revision, apparently still awaiting the council spending ~£1 million allocated for the project in early 2020: https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/nottingham-news/almost-1m-spent-improving-nottinghams-3728038

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@TerribleMaps , I would like to request a 1:625000 Ordnance Survey map of Great Britain, viewed in the near infra-red.

#MapOfGreatBritain #OrdnanceSurvey

Might be old news to some, but #OrdnanceSurvey Terrain50 elevation #OpenData has different resolutions in vector & raster formats: https://sk53-osm.blogspot.com/2023/01/a-little-surprise-hidden-in-os.html.

Vector data will be good enough for most apps wanting contour data in Great Britain.

Thanks to @nigelparrish for setting me off down this rabbit hole.

@nigelparrish @alex_roddie

OpenStreetMap does not hold contour data. Your example is is Thunderforest Outdoors:
https://www.thunderforest.com/maps/outdoors/

Maps built from OSM tend to use available open source elevation data, usually SRTM 'cos it has worldwide coverage.

#OrdnanceSurvey do provide some open elevation data (Terrain50), it's not really any better as rasters (image 1), unexpectedly a lot better as vector data (image 2). Third image is from DEFRA 1m Lidar. Last all 3. OSM basemap by @SomeoneElse

Playing around with slopes from #OrdnanceSurvey Open Terrain50 and paths from #OpenStreetMap in #QGIS and #PostGis with a view to reviewing ones which may lead to walkers getting #CragFast

https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/SK53/diary/400702

A snow covered Wolstonbury Hill for #HillfortsWednesday. #BronzeAge Ram's Hill type enclosure with unusual feature of an internal boundary ditch. Enclosure potmarked with C18th flint digging, but evidence of Iron Age, Roman & Saxon activity has been noted. #HeritageHound had a quick survey of the site from the #OrdnanceSurvey #TrigPoint.
#Archaeology #archaeodon #Sussex https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1016153?section=official-list-entry

Delighted to receive this repro #Secret 1926 #GeneralStrike #map of #London today. It was produced to inform the emergency response to the strike and this copy is printed by the wonderful #DennisMaps to full #OrdnanceSurvey standard for the #CharlesCloseSociety https://charlesclosesociety.org/home

OK, so you know the #TrigPillar s on top of hills and mountains? Used by #OrdnanceSurvey to create a framework for it's #maps. Now think about the flatlands of East Anglia, here artificial hills were created using temporary 'Bilby towers' Here one of the OS surveyors is demonstrating their lack of fear of heights 😨 (look no safety harness) 1950s

I've learned a word: Pheon

This is a lovely blog post all about #OrdnanceSurvey #Benchmarks.

https://rowleyanth.wordpress.com/2022/11/28/a-short-history-of-ordnance-survey-benchmarks-and-the-pheon/

A tiring week over, but a lot of good work done. #digipres workshop, #DataGovernance course completed, #RDM #training course delivered and #RDA and #EOSC #DataStewardship meetings attended. Now some downtime before next week’s visit to #OrdnanceSurvey

Is this a Ordnance Survey/GPO benchmark? By The Purlieu West Malvern #benchmark #OS #OrdnanceSurvey #Malvern

Interesting #OrdnanceSurvey #Benchmarks on the Masonic Hall in Southport.

The first, quite tatty one, is where the OS says it should be on Duke Street. The other beautifully cut one is on the East-facing gatepost on King Street.

Interesting #OrdnanceSurvey #Benchmarks on the Masonic Hall in Southport.

The first, quite tatty one, is where the OS says it should be on Duke Street. The other beautifully cut one is on the East-facing gatepost on King Street.

#Introduction hi brave new bird alt. Following the suggested protocols … had the pleasure of being at the birth of commercial #gps in 1984 - worked on the first differential services and then moved to work for the main receiver manufacturer at the time #Trimble. Since then focussed on maps and surveying ending up leading the mapping of GB for nearly 18 years at #ordnancesurvey. Now working on supporting new mappers and mapping technology . What can I say ♥️ maps ♥️ gps ♥️ map posts .

Old #1950s #oldphoto of Lowercroft Camp, near #Ainsworth.
Link takes you to about a dozen photos of the camp as surveyed by #OrdnanceSurvey in 1953.
Italian #POW camp in #WW2 it was then used for temporary housing for a few years. https://www.timepix.uk/keyword/Lowercroft%20Camp/i-xNK7RtP

#OrdnanceSurvey is both releasing more #OpenData and using #OpenStreetMap formats...

Suggests they're not scared of OSM's data, but it's tooling and developer market share.