Why the photos used by the Ordnance Survey map for their cover are so bad??? the one for Trowbridge and Warminster is a blur MTBiker with white socks, the one for Swansea is a MTBiker with Cantilever brakes on its bike (look like a 1980 photo which has been scanned). Can SimonFbarnes or SheldonA be in touch with their pictures department? Thank you.

Our Quantocks one has just been updated, now has a loon on a stork xc bike…yeah, right common is them..

Yeah, according to OS Dunkled is a centre of Dog Sledding Excellence?

Check out Explorer 130 Salisbury & Stonehenge! Quality bike!

Not that I’m biased … Litespeed rock … but let down by dodgy coloured forks in the pic 😉

My White Peak map shows a chap standing on a bit of limestone pavement, of which there aren’t any in the White Peak.

Landrangers show a local landmark, view or something recognisable; why do Explorers just show a generic “we can’t be bothered, have a random picture” instead?

phill – because they can’t be bothered

Yes I got it as well!. Nice yellow V-brake. Not sure it was near Stonehenge or Salisbury. These photos are just killing me.

Sharki

The previous Quantocks one was a rather dubious photo of me!

And yes, it was taken in the Quantocks.. February, if I remember, with the remit of “pretend it’s spring”. Spring my arse 🙂

barney, sorry, but at least your picture looks good. Just for curiosity, were you commissioned by OS to take the picture?

*sniggers*

At least four OS map covers were taken by Seb Rogers:
http://sebrogers.typepad.com/seb_rogers_blog/2007/12/os-gets-active.html

Ok , all understood, so things are improving then!!! Cool.

Nah, the photoshoot was originally for the cover of (I seem to recall) What MTB, but it was never used. Pics from that series (there are better ones, honest) have cropped up in a variety of places, from ads in mags, the front cover of the CTC mag and the OS map.

Less of your sniggering, Sharki – I’m no oil painting at the best of times, even less so in a 10 year old too big Goretex on a test bike that’s too small trying to pretend I’m warm…

Seb took the pics, by the way 🙂