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The original draftsman's drawings for the area around St Columb Major in Cornwall, made in 1810. Detail from 1901 Ordnance Survey map of the Imperial fortress colony of Bermuda (showing St. George's Town and St. George's Garrison), compiled from surveys carried out between 1897 and 1899 by Lieutenant Arthur Johnson Savage, Royal Engineers.
With his appointment to Ordnance Survey in 1823, Gardner was given an allowance of £100 per year for three years. His contract required Gardner to find a home and a "handsome shop" in London's West End. [1] His shop was at 163 Regent Street, [5] [6] [7] moving to 33 Brewer Street in Golden Square upon retirement in 1840. [8] [9]
Following his retirement from the Ordnance Survey, Smith was deputy chairman of an independent committee appointed to review the handling of geographic information in the UK. He presided over a major international conference on digital cartography in 1985. In the same year he was awarded the Patron's Medal by the Royal Geographical Society. [8]
While the Ordnance Survey had surveyed a large part of the country, the scale at which the maps should be made and what was the most useful had yet to be decided. Sir Henry was a firm believer in the 1:2500 scale, and he used his position to effect this change despite the less than full approval of his superiors.
A union has criticised plans to make almost 100 redundancies at mapping service Ordnance Survey. Prospect said laying off 95 skilled staff was “short sighted” and counter to the Government’s ...
Ordnance Survey booklet cover by Martin (1919) [note 1] Ellis Martin was born in Plymouth on 12 November 1881. He went to school at King's College School, Wimbledon and then went to the Slade School of Art where he was a contemporary of Augustus John.
Charles William Wilson; Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem. 1865. In 1864 he started working on the Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem funded by the wealthy Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts whose primary motivation was to find better drinking water for those living in the city. [2]
The title of the post was originally Superintendent of the Ordnance Survey (under the Board of Ordnance) but it evolved during the tenure of Henry James. He was appointed in 1854 as Superintendent [ 1 ] but he had made himself Director by 1863 [ 2 ] and then Director-General by 1874. [ 3 ]
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