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A PAPER by Brigadier M. N. MacLeod, Director General of the Ordnance Survey, on “A Grid System for the Maps of Great Britain” was read at a recent meeting of the Royal Geographical Society. Brigadier MacLeod explained that the 1/2,500 survey is not published as a continuous series for the whole country but consists of more than forty separate series, each comprising a single county or a small group of counties. This lack of continuity has proved a source of much inconvenience, and no little extra expense in revision. Since the War, the revision has fallen seriously into arrears, but if, as a result of the recommendations of the Departmental Committee now considering the matter, drastic action for overtaking these arrears is approved, the Director General thinks it would be a good opportunity for recasting the 1/2,500 sheets on national instead of county lines and on a single projection.
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A Grid System for Ordnance Survey Maps. Nature 137, 196–197 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137196b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/137196b0