The GPO Tower (AKA Telecom Tower AKA BT Tower) only started to appear in public maps in 1984; despite having been completed in the 1960s and dominating the London skyline from many angles, taking up two whole 'blocks' on the ground in London W1 and containing a commercial restaurant.
--- https://hdyc.neis-one.org/?spiregrain spiregrain_...@ksglp.org.uk On Sun, 28 Jun 2020, at 4:36 PM, Andy Townsend wrote: > > On 28/06/2020 00:47, David Woolley wrote: >> >> On the other hand, there used to be part of the North Yorkshire moors that >> had "undefined" written over it on OS maps.) >> > Interestingly (assuming you're talking about the radar installation at RAF > Fylingdales), at least as of my 2006 copy of OS's OL6 map, the OS was still > lacking some of the detail - the military area is missing yet clearly > signposted onsite, and the bridleway that runs north of the site is mostly > signposted on the ground but mostly missing from the OS map (in OSM > https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/7600885032 and > https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/813719250 > <https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/813719250#map=16/54.3745/-0.6582>). There > are still some "odd" signposts around such as > https://map.atownsend.org.uk/tmp/fylingdales/IMG_20200531_163604.jpg , but at > least no-one's pretending that there's "nothing there" - it's fairly obvious > in the landscape: > https://map.atownsend.org.uk/tmp/fylingdales/IMG_20200531_183407.jpg . > Best Regards, > Andy > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >
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