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 ****' in a geography atlas?

just checked the river **** 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….

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=433500&y=86500&z=120&sv=middleton&st=3&tl=Map+of+Middleton,+Isle+of+Wight+%5BCity/Town/Village%5D&searchp=ids.srf&mapp=map.srf

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

So I was completely wasting my time looking round the edge of the IoW at 25k then? 🙄

Er – yea I appear to have wasted your time *hangs head in shame*

Probably some interesting things at 25k too?!

This one is quite subtle too. Obviously someone is having a laugh.

Cute

Scunthorpe

woody2000 – Member
Trevor wasn't too subtle
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?X=327500&Y=342500&A=Y&Z=120

Trevor Basin is a great place to go and watch people crash canal boats as they try to get round the tight turn towards Llangollen 😉

whats the clithero one, or is it just too subtle?

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=431400&y=84970&z=120&sv=431400,84970&st=4&ar=y&mapp=map.srf&searchp=ids.srf&dn=824&ax=431400&ay=84970&lm=0

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

'Trevor Hirst' or something like that?

simonfbarnes – Member
you forgot "Slartibartfast"…

Isn't that the Norwegian OS maps though??

whats the clithero one, or is it just too subtle?

Struggling to find it?

Struggling to find it?

that's not even funny – a ladyfriend told me her husband failed to locate it in 20 years of marriage 🙁

a ladyfriend told me her husband failed to locate it in 20 years of marriage

Couldn't she have drawn him a map, or perhaps driven herself?

And she failed to show him where it was in the 19+ years that it was abvious he'd not find it on his own?