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Any fellow map enthusiasts on here? 13:48 - May 4 with 1609 views

If so I would like to share this site which is helping to keep me occupied during lockdown

https://www.oldmapsonline.org/en/Suffolk#bbox=0.33997473000000006,51.93211779000

and my current favourite map

https://maps.nls.uk/view/101168291

Which is giving me hours of pleasure exploring how things have changed and stayed the same over the last century and a quarter.

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Any fellow map enthusiasts on here? on 13:59 - May 4 with 1229 views

Ewan_Oozami

I am a total map nerd and reaching for the Kleenex as I type....

	You are the obsolete SRN4 to my Fairey Rotodyne....
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Any fellow map enthusiasts on here? on 14:04 - May 4 with 1215 views

hoppy

Any fellow map enthusiasts on here? on 13:59 - May 4 by Ewan_Oozami
I am a total map nerd and reaching for the Kleenex as I type....

Hours of pleasure for you too, eh?!

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Any fellow map enthusiasts on here? on 14:09 - May 4 with 1203 views

Ryorry

Any fellow map enthusiasts on here? on 13:59 - May 4 by Ewan_Oozami
I am a total map nerd and reaching for the Kleenex as I type....

That makes 3 of us so far :)

Had a lodger 1998-2001 who back in those good ol days worked for Ordnance Survey mapping as a cartographer. Really envied him that job - guess it's all gone digital now.


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Any fellow map enthusiasts on here? on 14:12 - May 4 with 1196 views

GeoffSentence

Any fellow map enthusiasts on here? on 14:09 - May 4 by Ryorry
That makes 3 of us so far :) Had a lodger 1998-2001 who back in those good ol days worked for Ordnance Survey mapping as a cartographer. Really envied him that job - guess it's all gone digital now.

I was a cartographic surveyor for the OS back in the mid to late eighties, I wasn't very good at it and I do hope that all my errors have been corrected by now. But just in case, take extra care when navigating round East London and take a mobile phone to call for help if you are walking round Epping Forest.

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Any fellow map enthusiasts on here? on 14:14 - May 4 with 1189 views

hoppy

For my dad’s 80th birthday a few weeks ago, I wanted to get something a bit different and special for him, and I found online a place that I could get a personalised vintage map 1000 piece jigsaw of where he was born and grew up, with an OS map of Hadleigh from 1960, although there were earlier versions you could order. He loved it and keeps spotting things he remembered that are long gone.

https://www.atlas-and-i.com/

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Any fellow map enthusiasts on here? on 14:18 - May 4 with 1182 views

Steve_M

When you're bored of that then have a look at this via the NLS site:

https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=19&lat=51.51414&lon=-0.10434&layers=163&b=

More here and Mapping London is great in general too:

https://mappinglondon.co.uk/2013/victorian-london-in-incredible-detail/

My current fascination, prompted by walking along the Regent's Canal a lot recently is the industrial heritage of what would now be called inter-modal points - the interchange between railway and canal for good bought into London - at Kings Cross and Camden.

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Any fellow map enthusiasts on here? on 14:25 - May 4 with 1158 views

longtimefan

Damm. No work this afternoon!

Any fellow map enthusiasts on here? on 14:26 - May 4 with 1154 views

GeoffSentence

Any fellow map enthusiasts on here? on 14:18 - May 4 by Steve_M

Iplayer currently has this on at the moment which is worth a watch

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00s5p6k/the-beauty-of-maps-2-city-maps-or

Sadly, this isn't on at the moment but was a really good watch

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06b36q3

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Any fellow map enthusiasts on here? on 14:27 - May 4 with 1154 views

Ewan_Oozami

Any fellow map enthusiasts on here? on 14:04 - May 4 by hoppy
Hours of pleasure for you too, eh?!

I've lost days looking at old ordnance survey maps! :-)

When I retire I want to try and do one of those travelogues on old roads by cycling between say Ipswich and Cambridge or London using as many roads pre-1961 (when I was born) as I can!

I'd like to cycle to all the places that I've lived as well in that way, should keep me busy for a few months!

	You are the obsolete SRN4 to my Fairey Rotodyne....
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Any fellow map enthusiasts on here? on 14:39 - May 4 with 1128 views

Fixed_It

Any fellow map enthusiasts on here? on 14:12 - May 4 by GeoffSentence
I was a cartographic surveyor for the OS back in the mid to late eighties, I wasn't very good at it and I do hope that all my errors have been corrected by now. But just in case, take extra care when navigating round East London and take a mobile phone to call for help if you are walking round Epping Forest.

FFS - so that's why I ended up walking along the hard shoulder of the M25 instead of a quiet country lane last summer!!!

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Any fellow map enthusiasts on here? on 15:05 - May 4 with 1088 views

GeoffSentence

Any fellow map enthusiasts on here? on 14:39 - May 4 by Fixed_It
FFS - so that's why I ended up walking along the hard shoulder of the M25 instead of a quiet country lane last summer!!!

You might have meant that as a joke, but honestly i was that cr@p it could be true.

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Any fellow map enthusiasts on here? on 15:08 - May 4 with 1075 views

GeoffSentence

Any fellow map enthusiasts on here? on 14:18 - May 4 by Steve_M

It's a shame that lockdown has stopped NLS from working because there are one or two maps I would like to buy from them, including that 100 year old Ipswich one.

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Any fellow map enthusiasts on here? on 15:10 - May 4 with 1075 views

Fixed_It

Any fellow map enthusiasts on here? on 15:05 - May 4 by GeoffSentence
You might have meant that as a joke, but honestly i was that cr@p it could be true.

Have only been to Epping Forest once many moons ago with a girl I knew from Uni. It was lovely until we came to a clearing which turned out to be the groundworks for the new London Orbital Road (M25). Yes - I am that old!

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Any fellow map enthusiasts on here? on 15:22 - May 4 with 1046 views

NewcyBlue

I saw this the other day

https://www.landfall.co.uk/

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Any fellow map enthusiasts on here? on 15:23 - May 4 with 1042 views

Keno

Any fellow map enthusiasts on here? on 15:10 - May 4 by Fixed_It
Have only been to Epping Forest once many moons ago with a girl I knew from Uni. It was lovely until we came to a clearing which turned out to be the groundworks for the new London Orbital Road (M25). Yes - I am that old!

Many years ago when I was in my teens a group of us had been to see a town game in London and went back to my mates brothers in North London somewhere. Having had a few drinks I was persuaded you could roll up the white lines in road

so there I was about 11.30 at night trying to roll up the white lines in the middle of the A12 Romford area.

I got dragged away by my mates as the blue flashing light could be seen approaching

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Any fellow map enthusiasts on here? on 15:24 - May 4 with 1039 views

GeoffSentence

Any fellow map enthusiasts on here? on 15:22 - May 4 by NewcyBlue
I saw this the other day https://www.landfall.co.uk/

Those 3D topographic maps are something special.

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Any fellow map enthusiasts on here? on 15:25 - May 4 with 1040 views

NewcyBlue

And here is something I like to do on every ship I go on that has this particular nautical chart.

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Any fellow map enthusiasts on here? on 15:27 - May 4 with 1030 views

Ewan_Oozami

Any fellow map enthusiasts on here? on 15:25 - May 4 by NewcyBlue
And here is something I like to do on every ship I go on that has this particular nautical chart.

I'm sure there must be more islands with which you can do that? :-)

	You are the obsolete SRN4 to my Fairey Rotodyne....
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Any fellow map enthusiasts on here? on 15:32 - May 4 with 1021 views

NewcyBlue

Any fellow map enthusiasts on here? on 15:24 - May 4 by GeoffSentence
Those 3D topographic maps are something special.

I’ve actually got the Nautical Chart for Felixstowe if you want me to put some photos up?

It’s a used chart. From one of the ships I was on. We are paperless these days and use electronic charts.

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Any fellow map enthusiasts on here? on 15:33 - May 4 with 1018 views

Keno

Any fellow map enthusiasts on here? on 15:24 - May 4 by GeoffSentence
Those 3D topographic maps are something special.

Yeah, but they spoil it by having one of Jersey, the Norfolk of the Channel Islands

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Any fellow map enthusiasts on here? on 15:34 - May 4 with 1017 views

NewcyBlue

Any fellow map enthusiasts on here? on 15:24 - May 4 by GeoffSentence
Those 3D topographic maps are something special.

They are. I dread to think how much they cost!

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Any fellow map enthusiasts on here? on 15:45 - May 4 with 1000 views

GeoffSentence

Any fellow map enthusiasts on here? on 15:32 - May 4 by NewcyBlue
I’ve actually got the Nautical Chart for Felixstowe if you want me to put some photos up? It’s a used chart. From one of the ships I was on. We are paperless these days and use electronic charts.

Go on do it, lets have some chart porn.

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Any fellow map enthusiasts on here? on 15:58 - May 4 with 977 views

NewcyBlue

Any fellow map enthusiasts on here? on 15:45 - May 4 by GeoffSentence
Go on do it, lets have some chart porn.

There is also a photo of the approaches to Felixstowe chart that also has the river Orwell on it.

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Any fellow map enthusiasts on here? on 16:21 - May 4 with 936 views

NotSure

Really interesting. Can't see any evidence though of a football ground at Portman Road in the 1896 map. Wiki tells me there used to be a Cricket pitch but can't see that either.

Any fellow map enthusiasts on here? on 16:28 - May 4 with 930 views

EdwardStone

In my Army days I had unlimited access to the Map Store....a large brick building on Barton Stacey B Camp. Floor to ceiling racks of boxes of maps from all over the World

A favourite was to get a full set of the 1:50 000 UK maps as a gift for friends/rellies. Some of the mapsheets from the north of Scotland were a bit dull.....just millions of contour lines and not a trace of road, dwelling or any other sign of human influence.

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