Son Dakika HaberleriJun 29, 2025
Alaplı ilk OSGB firması törenle hizmet vermeye başladı https://www.sondakikam.com.tr/3-sayfa/alapli-ilk-osgb-firmasi-torenle-hizmet-vermeye-basladi/21026 #Alaplı #OSGB #İşSağlığı
𝖗𝖆𝖓𝖉Ω𝖌𝖔𝖙𝖍Nov 25, 2024
In October I visited a few of the magical places so beautifully compiled in the #WeirdWalk book.
The exact locations of the ancient megaliths and geological wonders are given in Ordnance Survey National Grid (#OSGB) coordinates, a British system of geographic grid references I had not previously heard of.
Locations are noted as two letters representing squares in nested grids and numerical 'eastings' and 'northings' distances from the southwestern most corner of each square.
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Show threadSK53Jan 29, 2024

@harry_wood 3 weeks later & it still seems asinine

#OSGB #OpenData #ThingsProgrammersBelieveAboutAddresses

Bob HarveyAug 30, 2023

Yesterday's #POTD #PictureOfTheDay from Geograph was erronously listed as the island of Barra. It is actually Vatersay/Bhatarsaigh

Note that the Ordnance Survey, whose mapping is used, uses the Scottish Gaelic names for locations in preference to English

"Port Deas an Uidhe"
cc-by-sa/2.0 - © Jonathan Wilkins - https://geograph.org.uk/p/7195273

#Vatersay #Bhatarsaigh #Gaelic #OSGB #Scotland #Coast #Island #Hebredies #Geograph #Photography

Port Deas an Uidhe

Geograph
Show threadSK53Aug 10, 2023

Also this statement seems wrong:

""Wilmott worries that these maps, now dominant, lack information that more traditional maps like Britain’s Ordnance Survey (OS) still have: “An OS map shows you where a stile is for horses; I’m not sure Google Maps even knows what a stile is. ""

I've never seen a horse stile marked on #OSGB mass market topo maps. OTOH I do know a map provider who does have that sort of information: https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1yJS

overpass turbo

A web based data mining tool for OpenStreetMap which runs any kind of Overpass API query and shows the results on an interactive map.