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The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States.
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.
The Ordnance Survey began producing six inch to the mile (1:10,560) maps of Great Britain in the 1840s, modelled on its first large-scale maps of Ireland from the mid-1830s. This was partly in response to the Tithe Commutation Act 1836 which led to calls for a large-scale survey of England and Wales.
Although the scale on a digital map is much more flexible than a paper map, one can print out maps from OS MasterMap data with detail equivalent to a traditional 1:1250 paper map. Ordnance Survey claims that OS MasterMap data is never more than six months out of date, thanks to continuous review.
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Pages in category "Maps from Ordnance Survey" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
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The first Ramsden theodolite as used by Roy. (Destroyed by bomb damage in 1941.) In the aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1745, the Duke of Cumberland (military commander against the rebels) – advised by Lieutenant-Colonel David Watson, a Deputy Quartermaster-General of the Board of Ordnance – recognised that there was a need for an accurate map of the Scottish Highlands.
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