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Re: New project for 2018 - OS One Inch 7th Series map coverage

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Mattemotorway wrote: Sun May 20, 2018 22:30
Steven wrote: Tue May 15, 2018 18:49 ...
Sheet 41 (Braemar) Revision A//
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Just thought I'd mention that whilst that sheet appears on the 1967 layer, it doesn't appear on the 'all' layer.
Yes. That's because "all" isn't really all maps - it's the original GB wide coverage with one (often unknown revision) edition of each map. It's missing around 5 maps in total - Shetland and some of eastern Scotland; but I haven't had a full set of the original scans prior to this year's AGM, so I've not been able to touch that layer.
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GeorgeEvans wrote: Tue May 22, 2018 05:34 You can find them here https://maps.nls.uk/os/one-inch-seventh ... index.html

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Though of course the NLS have less maps online than SABRE in total - they only have a single revision online.
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Of course.

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GeorgeEvans wrote: Tue May 22, 2018 07:18 Of course.

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Steven wrote: Sun May 20, 2018 21:52Again, there's quite a lot of interesting things across those maps, and I'd love to hear what people find.
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You're welcome.

I get a small trickle of likes here and their fir the lists. They're a national resource acc to the British Library you know!
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GeorgeEvans wrote: Tue May 22, 2018 07:18 Of course.

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A bit of quiet work has gone on within the OS One Inch 7th Series layers over the last few weeks.

Thanks to Ritchie bringing a USB stick with him to the AGM full of the original source data of the "Seventh Series" layer, all those maps for which we have a definite date for have now been added to the relevant annual layers, so there's plenty more dotted around the place. By the very nature of the annual layers, there's quite a number of places where parts of the original maps were hidden on the full Seventh Series layer, and they've therefore now been fully revealed for the first time on SABRE Maps.
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A new annual layer today, where the 1968 One Inch layer has been added.

This is a little complicated now, as we're now under 50 years old and we have to be careful about crown copyright. This means that we can't (yet) add all OS One Inch maps published in 1968, just a subset of them. So, we've been able to add:

Sheet 39 (Strathdon) Revision A/
Sheet 58 (Knapdale) Revision A//
Sheet 60 (Glasgow) Revision B/*
Sheet 78 (Newcastle upon Tyne) Revision C/*
Sheet 85 (Durham) Revision B/*/*
Sheet 99 (Hull) Revision B/
Sheet 105 (Grimsby) Revision B/
Sheet 110 (Stoke-on-Trent) Revision B/*/*
Sheet 113 (Lincoln and Grantham) Revision B/*
Sheet 160 (London NW) Revision B/*

Sheet 39 is now completed, and it's added to the list of sheets where we have every revision ever published online.

There's utterly loads to see on this lot - the A108 Tyne Tunnel approaches, under construction A1(M) through County Durham, what appears to be odd mapping of the Glasgow Inner Ring Road, the M8 Renfrew Bypass and its western terminus, the now abandoned former M1 southern terminus at Mill Hill, and some nice earthworks ready for the next stage of the A500 north of Stoke-on-Trent.

What will you find?
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Steven wrote: Sat Jun 16, 2018 08:52 What will you find?
Nice, I don't think I'd seen the temporary M1 terminus on a map before. No Scratchwood services either...
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Steven wrote: Sat Jun 16, 2018 08:52 A new annual layer today, where the 1968 One Inch layer has been added.

Sheet 78 (Newcastle upon Tyne) Revision C/*

What will you find?
The A1055 between the A184 and South Shields, which is now the A194.

The terminal junctions of the A108 at Boldon and Billy Mill look almost triangular on the maps and not like conventional roundabouts. I would imagine that the A108 / A1058 junction was temporary as the A108 would be extended northwestwards in the early 1970's to meet the A1 at Seaton Burn. I can remember that the A108 met the A184 at a conventional roundabout near Boldon when I was in the area as a teenager in 1974.
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Steven wrote: Sat Jun 16, 2018 08:52 A new annual layer today, where the 1968 One Inch layer has been added.

Sheet 60 (Glasgow) Revision B/*

What will you find?
There appears to be a flyover at Townhead linking the A8 to what would become the M8 but the new road comes to an abrupt halt at a junction with a B road at Port Dundas.

The M8 terminates at what appears to be a flat junction with the A8 at Southbar, between Renfrew and Bishopton. Was this junction similar to the M22 junction with the A6 in Northern Ireland?
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Steven wrote: Sat Jun 16, 2018 08:52 Sheet 85 (Durham) Revision B/*/*
Great, now I look at this without my doodling from when I was a child... :oops:
Admittedly, all I've done is write on a few road numbers, but still, it's nice to be able to look at this without that!

Also, we get the appearence on the Immingham B1358! Sadly, it's shown as an unnumbered B-road, but it's there!
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Steven wrote: Sat Jun 16, 2018 08:52 A new annual layer today, where the 1968 One Inch layer has been added.

...and some nice earthworks ready for the next stage of the A500 north of Stoke-on-Trent.
Do you mean the cutting here?

Nothing to do with the A500 I'm afraid. It's a former railway alignment that just happens to be in a confusing place.
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The Deeside Railway now sadly shows up as "disused", services having been withdrawn in 1966. A few more years on and they'll be gone entirely. :(
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Today's addition is to the 1966 layer, thanks to a scan provided by drm567. It's Revision C of sheet 100 (Liverpool), which puts us at three different revisions of that sheet.
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Thanks to two more scans provided by drm567, we now have the following on the 1961 layer:

Sheet 95 (Blackburn and Burnley) Revision B
Sheet 155 (Bristol and Newport) Revision A//

The Blackburn/Burnley one means that we now have pretty much of Lancashire online from 1961; across into Yorkshire as far as Leeds; northern Cheshire and into Westmorland.

The Bristol and Newport sheet is the final revision prior to the opening of the Severn Bridge - so it makes an excellent "before and after" comparison with the following revision that was published in 1966, which is also online.
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Thanks to another scan provided by drm567, I've now been able to add another sheet to the 1960 layer: Sheet 167 (Salisbury) Revision A.

This adds another one to the relatively short list of English sheets where we have copies available of every out-of-copyright revision.
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Excellent work!
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