[Closed] What to do with old OS maps....

Wallpaper your entire house with them.

wrapping paper

Put them on eBay ..?
Even though I use Viewranger when out I always carry a paper copy in an area I'm not too familiar with " just in case "

Bloody wi-fi speed 👿

How old are they?
If not too out of date then local Scout Group (or District) or DofE groups.

If they are really old then use them as wrapping paper as suggested above!

Si

If you are not going to keep them for your own use then either use as wallpaper or donate to a local school geography department.

Give them to someone. Throwing them away would be criminal.

Everything is digital now

Bollocks

There are loads of OS maps from various parts of the country, but mostly Lakes, Peaks and some of Scotland... Everything is digital now so wondering whats best to do with them or is it straight to recycling ?

If there's one thing that I wouldn't rely on, it would be a digitised OS map. Technology always has a way of letting you down when you really don't want it to. 😀

Wallpaper or a background in a photo frame with MTB pics in or something. I love OS maps.

any second hand book shops locally ?

wifes a geography teacher , we always look out for old maps of local area...

was in a used book shop in poolewe on the north west coast....we live on the other side of the country.

picked up an OS map - 1989 edition of my local area.....

i live in an isolated group of 8 houses in a rural area.

Was my street not circled in pen on this map. freaky.

anyhoo other than that just comparing the differences between 1989 and today was interesting.

If there's one thing that I wouldn't rely on, it would be a digitised OS map. Technology always has a way of letting you down when you really don't want it to.

Whilst I always carry a paper map, not had recourse to use one in years. Just use the OS Maps app for my iPhone.

I’ll take them all for the price of postage as long as I haven’t got them all already.
No interest in digital!

Wallpaper. Wrapping paper. Cut them up and turn them into postcards or coasters or the background in picture frames. Give them to a local outdoors group (Scouts, Beavers, Cadets etc), even if they're out of date they still come in really handy for teaching kids map reading.

Under the process begun in 1949, many routes were classed as Roads Used as Public Paths (RUPPs). However, the Countryside Act 1968 (the same one which gave us the right to cycle on BWs) abolished this category and stated that all RUPPs were to be reclassified. In many cases they were reclassified as footpaths even though a Court of Appeal ruling in 1975 confirmed that all RUPPs should have, at a minimum, BW status. So [b]if you have access to older OS maps which show RUPPS, it may be worth checking to see if any of them are now shown as footpaths[/b]. Some are also shown as ORPAs (other routes with public access) on OS maps, but this has no clear legal standing.

http://openmtb.org.uk/resources/everything-you-always-wanted-to-know-about-bridleways/

If you fancy selling a few from Scotland then i have an idea to put them on the roof of my transporter. Inside obviously 🙂

Scan them in, then you have free digital maps and don't have to buy the digital ones 😛

Mostly I used to use mine to scan an area I was going to be in and print that to carry about. Though I have the phone these days, I might still carry a paper copy if it's somewhere remote I don't know just in case of dead / lost phone.

simondbarnes - Member
Bollocks

Digital bollocks? 😮

If they were your dads I would keep them - maps are ace, I pick them random just look at.

you could laminate or frame a few , do one wall in a room as wallpaper. they may be old issues but you will find that some areas might not have changed that much, obviously built up areas will have , but rural areas might not change that much even over a span of 50 years

I'm about to do No-2's room in the new house and she wants maps as the wallpaper.....

If you have Landranger 26 & 27 then I'd really like a wee bit of each of them......

I couldn't throw them away.

OS maps are a thing of beauty. I love looking at them.

Freegle them for good karma, or charity shop etc.

Put them on eBay ..?

I put a fair few on a while ago - it takes very little effort to list them, all the more so if you're listing a few all at the same time - sold all but one or two slightly less touristy corners of the UK pretty easily. Only two or three quid per map, some prob less. But it cleared a shelf an put a useful sum of money in my paypal for very little effort

Digital bollocks?

b0110cks

Colin, I'll look for you.

People collect them so I’d eBay them as they might be rare of valuable.

I'd also be interested in the Scottish ones depending which ones they are, love old maps.

Binning them is a crime, as said second hand book shops are a good shout.

At the price noted above I’ll take all you’ve got OP

Put them on UKClimbing; people on there will appreciate them.

Or Eblag. I might buy a few, never know.

I love poring over os maps, if I’m bored I’ll just get some lakes or Scotland ones out and pick out routes I’d like to do sometime the way I might pick up a book. Doing that digitally just isn’t the same. I sold a load of lip’s a few years ago and instantly regretted it!

Oh no, digital maps is like viewing your maps down a cardboard tube.

OS maps are a thing of beauty. I love looking at them.

Agreed. An OS map can tell you far more about your surroundings than anything digital. Immensely satisfying to use....... and the batteries don’t go flat.

I plot all out tours on colour copied sections of OS map, write on any relevant details like where we are staying etc, highlight the route and laminate back to back. That sits on top of my bar bag. Turning or swapping maps every few miles is a bit of a ritual for us. Quick drink, photo time, an update on where we are and how far it is to ‘that big climb’. I can just glance at a map and know it’s 5 miles to go until X Y or Z, if the next village has a pub or what that hill over there is called. Can’t do that with digital.....

If I could, I’d buy everything OS produce and have a set of shelves for them all. Love it. 🙂

Wrap them in sealed plastic with some silica gel and bury them in the garden. Useful for the end of the world.

As others have said, try and give them away to someone who'd use them. Maybe send them to YHA or places where the maps are for so guests can use them.

It's my lifetime ambition to hire a warehouse and spread out every single 1:50,000 map of the UK on the floor, just for the hell of it.

If Britain is about 1000 km long, I think I would need a warehouse 20 metres long at 1:50,000, is that right?

Colin, I have the ones you are lokking for, pm me please...

I think I'll make a spreadsheet (or a graph) and post up whats there.
Good 1:25 and 1:50 coverage of the Lakes, Peaks, Scotland and 4 of that jewel of the north... S****horpe....
Also somewhere called the Cotswolds and the mountain bike mecca of Lincolnshire...

age is as important as the area....

any old ones of the eastern cairngorms/deeside/donside/aberdeeenshire id be interested.

Do folk buy out of date maps ie up to 10 years old? I have a box to sort out and can't decide what to do!

Well my wife does (geography teacher)

trail_rat - guessing your wife only wants Scottish maps?

Edit: they're all Explorer series.

Yeah Scotland only

Sorry, can't help. 🙂

Happy to donate to schools so any teachers please shout out if you want any English maps in good condition. Mainly the Southern half of the country but there's a couple of Northumbrian ones too.

Nice one CG.. I'm making a map list tonight. Landranger and Explorer and Outdoor Leisure Series

Wales first here then others for No.2’s new room.
She wants a wall go maps doing

age is as important as the area....

On that note, I've never understood why OS don't put the year of publication on the maps. (Unless they have recently started doing it!)

On that note, I've never understood why OS don't put the year of publication on the maps. (Unless they have recently started doing it!)

They do and have done for years. Look at the legend, at the top. 🙂

I might be interested in some of these too - 1:25k ones - even S****horpe and Lincolnshire 😉

Absolutely they do.thats how I dated my 1989 one I found in poolewe

Was someone on here i think..a while back who'd framed one ontop of a wooden coffee table. If that makes sense. Looked great!!

They do and have done for years. Look at the legend, at the top.

I shall check later and could quite believe that I've missed it for 30 odd years. 😆

Any old Bartholomew s in the collection?

They look way better on the wall.

What to do with old OS maps?

I had a nice old map bought from a charity shop and I glued it (decoupage) to a cheap IKEA table. Was a 1960s roadmap of south Wales so really good for planning the road rides I was doing at the time.

Quirky but added some character to my house.