I just found out that on the 25k maps the cliffs are hand drawn, and apparently one of the things the cartographers used to do was write their names in them!
Just been looking on the isle of wight and have spotted quite clearly 'Bill' 'Peter' and 'Trevor' and some others I can't make out properly.
Brilliant.
you forgot "Slartibartfast"...
Interesting, I'll have a shufti at the 1:25k maps on my iPhone in a minute and see if there's anything there when I zoom in. I love looking at maps so this is a good excuse to spend time browsing mine.
They also put little curls in places that don't have them so when people like the AA copy them and call them their own the OS can sue the bottoms off them.
Like they did back in the 1990s. £20m it cost the AA.
I remember finding that the A-Z of Bristol had the diagonal road across Kiing's Square on the wrong diagonal, obviously one of those clever anti-copying 'mistakes'. clever idea
"Tourist" features in blue ink (Nature Trails, Visitor Centres and - importantly - ski-lifts) are not placed accurately. They should NOT be used as navigation aids.
Used to work as a topographic surveyor - surprising the errors you find in OS mapping. Roads that turn into streams, roads that turn into buildings (may have found the bat cave with that last one))
A-Z also make up roads for copyright issues.
On OS maps contour lines are accurate to +/- 5m (or they were when i was doing my a-levels.
The projection used by the OS means the south of England is bigger than it should be when compared with the north of Scotland.
If you like maps, check out worldmapper
and have spotted quite clearly 'Bill' 'Peter' and 'Trevor
grid refs ?
I am a cartographer and have added dolphin shaped woods that don't exist, and quite often put my name on maps, for features that don't exist. I always wanted my name in print. Small things in an otherwise boring day brighten my mapping world.
I remember finding that the A-Z of Bristol had the diagonal road across Kiing's Square on the wrong diagonal, obviously one of those clever anti-copying 'mistakes'. clever idea
They add in extra roads for copyright issues, but they don't make deliberate 'mistakes' for it. That's just a genuine error
What about 'map porn' I think I remember a 'river wanks' in a geography atlas?
just checked the river wanks is in Nicaragua. Oh how we laughed.......
you forgot "Slartibartfast"...
Give that man seven Ningis.
They add in extra roads for copyright issues
so do I get my money back if I try to go there and hit a wall ?
Give that man seven Ningis.
is that like a wedgie ?
There aren't any cliffs on any of the sections of 1:25k mapping I've got on my phone, sadly, so I can't check it out, and I'm not buying spurious bits of map just for checking it out.
so do I get my money back if I try to go there and hit a wall ?
Try it out. Give em a ring afterwards and let us know what they say
and I'm not buying spurious bits of map just for checking it
too right, these cartographers are taking the piss 
Well I've just wasted my time looking all the way round the coast of the IoW and didn't spot anything - GRs required please!
I saw a pair of boobs and a willy on Orkney.
lol - not sure on grid ref as I was looking at work.
Using OS's get-a-map - zoom in on the western corner of the isle of wight - find warren farm look south - you'll find Trevor. There is another name further to the right above 'the nodes' but I can't quite make it out
http://getamap.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/getamap/frames.htm
Window width - 4 km
Source data - 1:50,000 Scale Colour Raster
Grid reference at centre - SZ 322 849 GB Grid
EDIT - Ooops - that's the 50k scale not 25k - bugger
Trevor wasn't too subtle
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?X=327500&Y=342500&A=Y&Z=120
SZ313849
http://www.multimap.com/s/kuHrUtB5
This is a better link - one click left and one click down....
A bridleway dash on a 1:25000 map = 70 metres on the ground.
A cheeky little dash on the same map is 30 metres.
Well I only learnt this last year. 
'Bill' is between Blackgang and Blackgang Chine
EDIT - Ooops - that's the 50k scale not 25k - bugger
Er - yea I appear to have wasted your time *hangs head in shame*
Probably some interesting things at 25k too?!
Scunthorpe
woody2000 - Member
Trevor wasn't too subtle
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?X=327500&Y=342500&A=Y&Z=120
whats the clithero one, or is it just too subtle?
whats the clithero one
it refers to an entertaining item of female anatomy
There is another name further to the right above 'the nodes' but I can't quite make it out
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