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IN a paper prepared for the British Association meeting at Dundee, but not delivered, Brigadier A. B. Clough outlined the recommendations of the report of the Committee appointed in May 1935 to consider the revision, scales, styles, etc., of Ordnance Survey maps. The recommendations may be noted oven if delay must now ensue in the fulfilment of some. The principal points are these:(1) that no changes be made in the scales of existing maps; (2) that the large-scale maps be rearranged so as to form a single national series instead of thirty-nine separete county series; (3) that the revision of the large-scale plans be a continuous rather than a periodic process; (4) that a new series of maps be introduced on a scalo of 1 to 25,000; (5) that a grid be superimposed on all Ordnance maps. Several subsidiary and consequential recommendations follow, namely, that all large-scale plans should be square, that each 1 to 2,500 plan should cover 1 square kilometro of country, and that the metre should be the unit of measurement for the grid. It is also suggested that additional contours should be added to the six-inch map, and that the practice of publishing archæological maps should be continued.
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Ordnance Survey Plans. Nature 144, 590 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144590c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/144590c0