On 03/06/2010 08:56, Ed Loach wrote:
> Robert wrote:
>
>    
>> OS have always claimed to not put easter eggs in their actual
>> data, and nobody has, to my knowledge, ever found any in _OS_
>> data.
>>
>> A-Z, collins, etc. are another story.
>>      
> I vaguely remember a story about how when they were digitising their
> data they discovered that decades earlier a draftsman had hidden his
> name in the contour lines, so there *may* be some they aren't aware
> of, but I'm inclined to suspect mistake rather than deliberate.
>    
The recent radio 4 map series mentioned that "BILL" was drawn into the 
cliffs on the south of the Isle of Wight (it's southeast of Blackgang 
Chine; due west of Niton if you're interested).  It's been there a few 
years and is not particularly subtle.


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