General map-related articles
Containing general information on OS and other maps
Print codes and edition markings on Ordnance Survey Maps
An overview of the styles and their meanings
Research in progress
Current research - articles may be incomplete or provisional
Research into an anomalous set of 1:2500 County Series maps covering the Whitsbury parish in Wiltshire, 1871.
Articles from Sheetlines
I have written several articles which have been published in Sheetlines, the journal of the Charles Close Society for the Study of Ordnance Survey Maps.
A Co-ordinated Approach: The County Series, the National Grid and other Co-ordinate Transformation Stories, Sheetlines 80, published Dec 2007.
My first published article in Sheetlines with informtion on the OS County Series maps and the development of FieldenMaps.info Co-ordinate Converter to 2007.
Observations on BT&D map printings, Sheetlines 92, published Dec 2011.
An article outlining the observed differences between maps printed by OS and those printed by Butler, Tanner & Dennis from late 2010 onwards.
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