Re: [Talk-GB] Holes in modern England?

2020-10-31 Thread Steve Doerr
On 31/10/2020 08:04, Martin Wynne wrote: The NLS historic 25" georeferenced map first looks on the server for tiles from the County Series maps. If that returns a 404 Not Found error (presumably because the sheet wasn't available when the rest were scanned), it then looks on the server for

Re: [Talk-GB] Holes in modern England?

2020-10-31 Thread Martin Wynne
I think I have now worked this out. The NLS historic 25" georeferenced map first looks on the server for tiles from the County Series maps. If that returns a 404 Not Found error (presumably because the sheet wasn't available when the rest were scanned), it then looks on the server for the sa

Re: [Talk-GB] Holes in modern England?

2020-10-30 Thread Martin Wynne
One of the "holes" contains the town of Kidderminster. Looking at it on the full 25" map, that sheet is from the 1921 revision, the surrounding sheets are from the 1901 revision: https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17&lat=52.38277&lon=-2.24342&layers=168&b=7 Which may explain the holey map

Re: [Talk-GB] Holes in modern England?

2020-10-30 Thread ipswichmapper--- via Talk-GB
Considering it's called "holes map" I think it is meant to have the gaps. --  30 Oct 2020, 20:52 by mar...@templot.com: > On 30/10/2020 20:34, ipswichmap...@tutanota.com wrote: > >> If this is referring to what I posted earlier, then you have chosen a >> different map to what I linked. >> > > Hi,

Re: [Talk-GB] Holes in modern England?

2020-10-30 Thread Martin Wynne
On 30/10/2020 20:34, ipswichmap...@tutanota.com wrote: If this is referring to what I posted earlier, then you have chosen a different map to what I linked. Hi, No it's a separate issue. I was browsing the NLS site when Firefox threw an error. I clicked "Try again" and the holey map appeared

Re: [Talk-GB] Holes in modern England?

2020-10-30 Thread ipswichmapper--- via Talk-GB
If this is referring to what I posted earlier, then you have chosen a different map to what I linked. Here is the London grid map displayed using what you did: https://geo.nls.uk/mapdata3/os/ldn_tile/#ldn_nat_grid/ol3 On the right, it shows background imagery. "OpenLayers3" in a map of OSM, al

Re: [Talk-GB] Holes in modern England?

2020-10-30 Thread Adam Snape
On Fri, 30 Oct 2020, 18:53 Jez Nicholson, wrote: > How many holes in Blackburn, Lancashire? > There's Tockholes for one https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/29020280 > ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/li

Re: [Talk-GB] Holes in modern England?

2020-10-30 Thread Jez Nicholson
How many holes in Blackburn, Lancashire? On Fri, 30 Oct 2020, 18:36 Martin Wynne, wrote: > p.s. I've now discovered an overlay slider top-right which makes a bit > more sense. > > The slider is almost invisible over the map in Firefox. > > Martin. > >

Re: [Talk-GB] Holes in modern England?

2020-10-30 Thread Martin Wynne
p.s. I've now discovered an overlay slider top-right which makes a bit more sense. The slider is almost invisible over the map in Firefox. Martin. ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

[Talk-GB] Holes in modern England?

2020-10-30 Thread Martin Wynne
Anyone care to explain what's going on here: https://geo.nls.uk/mapdata3/os/25_inch/holes_england/#holes_england_new/ol3 It displays the OSM basic map (without attribution), with some random blank patches (see for example a large area north-west of Oxford). If you zoom in on the blank patche