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Monday, October 10, 2005
The start of Ordnance Survey Maps
Just been watching Nick Crane's Map Man on BBC2 this evening. Excellent series where Crane goes back and recreates the techniques used to map the British Isles in times gone past. Tonight he crossed Dartmoor with a 200 year old map made by the man who founded, or at least started work on the Ordnance Survey, and not surprisingly, only found one error - a river that didn't actually exist. It's commonplace now for mapmakers to add features that don't exist in order to protect their copyright (as the AA found to their cost a few years ago), normally it is a feature that would never jepordise the safety of anyone using the map for navigation. I wonder if the early versions of copyright protection were being built into the first ordnance survey efforts 200 years ago?
Posted by bigcrags @
8:47 PM
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