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Bill Wright
Aug 23, 2015, 10:41:51 PM8/23/15
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I can't find their OS maps anymore. It's a damned nuisance. Does anyone
know what's up? And anywhere else on the internet I can look at OS maps,
apart from Gridfinder which is clumsy?
Bill
know what's up? And anywhere else on the internet I can look at OS maps,
apart from Gridfinder which is clumsy?
Bill
Andy Burns
Aug 24, 2015, 2:20:06 AM8/24/15
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charles
Aug 24, 2015, 4:07:30 AM8/24/15
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In article <mre09d$4um$2...@speranza.aioe.org>,
I use www.streetmap.co.uk - still working this morning
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UnsteadyKen
Aug 24, 2015, 4:49:36 AM8/24/15
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In article: <mre09d$4um$2...@speranza.aioe.org>
Bill Wright says...
> I can't find their OS maps anymore.
>
To get back to the old one clear your cookies or:
Open http://www.bing.com/maps/
wait for the page to load completely, at the bottom right you will see
a panel with options: Exit, Feedback and Tips, click exit, fill in the
survey form and you will return to old version with street, OS and so
on available.
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Woody
Aug 24, 2015, 5:39:37 AM8/24/15
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"charles" <cha...@charleshope.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:54f80e1a...@charleshope.demon.co.uk...
> In article <mre09d$4um$2...@speranza.aioe.org>,
> Bill Wright <bi...@invalid.com> wrote:
>> I can't find their OS maps anymore. It's a damned nuisance. Does
>> anyone
>> know what's up? And anywhere else on the internet I can look at OS
>> maps,
>> apart from Gridfinder which is clumsy?
>
>> Bill
>
> I use www.streetmap.co.uk - still working this morning
>
Two different scales of OS map but you may have to zoom out a step or
> Bill Wright <bi...@invalid.com> wrote:
>> I can't find their OS maps anymore. It's a damned nuisance. Does
>> anyone
>> know what's up? And anywhere else on the internet I can look at OS
>> maps,
>> apart from Gridfinder which is clumsy?
>
>> Bill
>
> I use www.streetmap.co.uk - still working this morning
>
two to see them.
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Brian-Gaff
Aug 24, 2015, 6:23:43 AM8/24/15
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You use Bing?
I hate that place and the name.
I'm surprised the estate of Bing Crosby has not sued the pants of
Microsoft. I suppose it will change its name to that stupid personal
assistant soon. What was it curtana, or sultana or sultana or whatever..
Brian
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"Bill Wright" <bi...@invalid.com> wrote in message
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I hate that place and the name.
I'm surprised the estate of Bing Crosby has not sued the pants of
Microsoft. I suppose it will change its name to that stupid personal
assistant soon. What was it curtana, or sultana or sultana or whatever..
Brian
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"Bill Wright" <bi...@invalid.com> wrote in message
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Bill Wright
Aug 24, 2015, 12:12:57 PM8/24/15
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charles wrote:
> In article <mre09d$4um$2...@speranza.aioe.org>,
> Bill Wright <bi...@invalid.com> wrote:
>> I can't find their OS maps anymore. It's a damned nuisance. Does anyone
>> know what's up? And anywhere else on the internet I can look at OS maps,
>> apart from Gridfinder which is clumsy?
>
>> Bill
>
> I use www.streetmap.co.uk - still working this morning
>
That's pretty good Charles. By pressing f11 and messing with the
> In article <mre09d$4um$2...@speranza.aioe.org>,
> Bill Wright <bi...@invalid.com> wrote:
>> I can't find their OS maps anymore. It's a damned nuisance. Does anyone
>> know what's up? And anywhere else on the internet I can look at OS maps,
>> apart from Gridfinder which is clumsy?
>
>> Bill
>
> I use www.streetmap.co.uk - still working this morning
>
settings I can get a reasonable area on the screen. (I could get a
bigger area with Multimap though; spread it across two screens)
Bill
Bill Wright
Aug 24, 2015, 12:30:22 PM8/24/15
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'Automatic' maps. No OS.
Bill
UnsteadyKen
Aug 24, 2015, 1:03:04 PM8/24/15
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In article: <mrfgqq$q5g$1...@speranza.aioe.org>
Bill Wright says...
> Yes you were right, but switching to the old version offers 'Road' or
> 'Automatic' maps. No OS.
>
here, using Vivaldi and Chrome Browsers on Vista.
Did you clear any bing cookies and restart the browser?
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Chris J Dixon
Aug 24, 2015, 1:14:41 PM8/24/15
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http://www.magic.gov.uk/
Chris
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Graham.
Aug 24, 2015, 2:14:26 PM8/24/15
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On Mon, 24 Aug 2015 11:23:42 +0100, "Brian-Gaff"
<bri...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>You use Bing?
> I hate that place and the name.
> I'm surprised the estate of Bing Crosby has not sued the pants of
>Microsoft. I suppose it will change its name to that stupid personal
>assistant soon. What was it curtana, or sultana or sultana or whatever..
> Brian
I always remember when Bing Crosby was a studio guest on the ITV
<bri...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>You use Bing?
> I hate that place and the name.
> I'm surprised the estate of Bing Crosby has not sued the pants of
>Microsoft. I suppose it will change its name to that stupid personal
>assistant soon. What was it curtana, or sultana or sultana or whatever..
> Brian
racing programme and, by a fluke, a horse called Uncle Bing was
running in a race, so a lackey was sent to the nearest bookie to put a
bet on for him.
Did it win? Of course!
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Bill Wright
Aug 24, 2015, 2:16:02 PM8/24/15
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Chris J Dixon wrote:
> Bill Wright wrote:
>
>> I can't find their OS maps anymore. It's a damned nuisance. Does anyone
>> know what's up? And anywhere else on the internet I can look at OS maps,
>> apart from Gridfinder which is clumsy?
>
> Magic
>
> http://www.magic.gov.uk/
>
> Chris
That's very good! Pity the large scale OS is rather low res.
> Bill Wright wrote:
>
>> I can't find their OS maps anymore. It's a damned nuisance. Does anyone
>> know what's up? And anywhere else on the internet I can look at OS maps,
>> apart from Gridfinder which is clumsy?
>
> Magic
>
> http://www.magic.gov.uk/
>
> Chris
Bill
UnsteadyKen
Aug 24, 2015, 2:17:30 PM8/24/15
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Chris J Dixon says...
> Magic
>
> http://www.magic.gov.uk/
>
Not so magic, here is what I see; on the left is the map view and on
the right is a downloaded pdf map of ancient woodlands in my locality.
http://www.tiikoni.com/tis/view/?id=eda03f3
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Clive Page
Aug 26, 2015, 4:51:44 AM8/26/15
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On 24/08/2015 18:14, Chris J Dixon wrote:
>
> http://www.magic.gov.uk/
Hmm, I suppose one can learn to use magic, but it seems a very
complicated interface to me.
I still prefer streetmap.co.uk for most things as it does have O/S maps
at 1:25k and 1:50k as well as street layouts at two scales. Bill: it
has a "map size" option at the bottom right beneath the map itself with
two options of size, that may help you get what you want.
But a factor of interest to me is how up-to-date the maps are. I just
checked out M1 J10a where, over the last 2 years, one large roundabout
has been changed to a fly-over plus two small ones. All the O/S maps
from all websites that I can find have failed to record this change,
though the Council's plans have been available for at least a couple of
years. Full marks here to Google Maps, which showed the road layout
correctly almost as soon as it opened to traffic.
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Clive Page
>
> http://www.magic.gov.uk/
Hmm, I suppose one can learn to use magic, but it seems a very
complicated interface to me.
I still prefer streetmap.co.uk for most things as it does have O/S maps
at 1:25k and 1:50k as well as street layouts at two scales. Bill: it
has a "map size" option at the bottom right beneath the map itself with
two options of size, that may help you get what you want.
But a factor of interest to me is how up-to-date the maps are. I just
checked out M1 J10a where, over the last 2 years, one large roundabout
has been changed to a fly-over plus two small ones. All the O/S maps
from all websites that I can find have failed to record this change,
though the Council's plans have been available for at least a couple of
years. Full marks here to Google Maps, which showed the road layout
correctly almost as soon as it opened to traffic.
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Clive Page
Deanna Earley
Aug 26, 2015, 5:15:14 AM8/26/15
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On 26/08/2015 09:51, Clive Page wrote:
> But a factor of interest to me is how up-to-date the maps are. I just
> checked out M1 J10a where, over the last 2 years, one large roundabout
> has been changed to a fly-over plus two small ones. All the O/S maps
> from all websites that I can find have failed to record this change,
> though the Council's plans have been available for at least a couple of
> years. Full marks here to Google Maps, which showed the road layout
> correctly almost as soon as it opened to traffic.
Community efforts tend to be bang up to date too:
> But a factor of interest to me is how up-to-date the maps are. I just
> checked out M1 J10a where, over the last 2 years, one large roundabout
> has been changed to a fly-over plus two small ones. All the O/S maps
> from all websites that I can find have failed to record this change,
> though the Council's plans have been available for at least a couple of
> years. Full marks here to Google Maps, which showed the road layout
> correctly almost as soon as it opened to traffic.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/51.8567/-0.4157
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Bill Wright
Aug 26, 2015, 7:49:40 AM8/26/15
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Clive Page wrote:
> On 24/08/2015 18:14, Chris J Dixon wrote:
>>
>> http://www.magic.gov.uk/
>
> Hmm, I suppose one can learn to use magic, but it seems a very
> complicated interface to me.
>
> I still prefer streetmap.co.uk for most things as it does have O/S maps
> at 1:25k and 1:50k as well as street layouts at two scales. Bill: it
> has a "map size" option at the bottom right beneath the map itself with
> two options of size, that may help you get what you want.
Yes I finally found that!
> On 24/08/2015 18:14, Chris J Dixon wrote:
>>
>> http://www.magic.gov.uk/
>
> Hmm, I suppose one can learn to use magic, but it seems a very
> complicated interface to me.
>
> I still prefer streetmap.co.uk for most things as it does have O/S maps
> at 1:25k and 1:50k as well as street layouts at two scales. Bill: it
> has a "map size" option at the bottom right beneath the map itself with
> two options of size, that may help you get what you want.
>
> But a factor of interest to me is how up-to-date the maps are. I just
> checked out M1 J10a where, over the last 2 years, one large roundabout
> has been changed to a fly-over plus two small ones. All the O/S maps
> from all websites that I can find have failed to record this change,
> though the Council's plans have been available for at least a couple of
> years. Full marks here to Google Maps, which showed the road layout
> correctly almost as soon as it opened to traffic.
OS was still wrong in a few places.
Bill
Dave W
Aug 26, 2015, 9:45:36 AM8/26/15
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On Mon, 24 Aug 2015 03:41:41 +0100, Bill Wright <bi...@invalid.com>
wrote:
Thanks for the heads up. I can still use old-style Bing which has OS
maps as one of the options under the Roads tab. When I tried New Bing
Maps, OS is not available. There is a square Exit icon in the bottom
right corner that takes you back to old Bing.
The new version has Streetside, their equivalent of Google
Streetview, available via the square icon at top right.
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Dave W
wrote:
maps as one of the options under the Roads tab. When I tried New Bing
Maps, OS is not available. There is a square Exit icon in the bottom
right corner that takes you back to old Bing.
The new version has Streetside, their equivalent of Google
Streetview, available via the square icon at top right.
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Dave W
Bill Wright
Aug 26, 2015, 4:03:14 PM8/26/15
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Dave W wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Aug 2015 03:41:41 +0100, Bill Wright <bi...@invalid.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I can't find their OS maps anymore. It's a damned nuisance. Does anyone
>> know what's up? And anywhere else on the internet I can look at OS maps,
>> apart from Gridfinder which is clumsy?
>>
>> Bill
>
> Thanks for the heads up. I can still use old-style Bing which has OS
> maps as one of the options under the Roads tab. When I tried New Bing
> Maps, OS is not available. There is a square Exit icon in the bottom
> right corner that takes you back to old Bing.
Yes that's working for me now.
> On Mon, 24 Aug 2015 03:41:41 +0100, Bill Wright <bi...@invalid.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I can't find their OS maps anymore. It's a damned nuisance. Does anyone
>> know what's up? And anywhere else on the internet I can look at OS maps,
>> apart from Gridfinder which is clumsy?
>>
>> Bill
>
> Thanks for the heads up. I can still use old-style Bing which has OS
> maps as one of the options under the Roads tab. When I tried New Bing
> Maps, OS is not available. There is a square Exit icon in the bottom
> right corner that takes you back to old Bing.
Bill
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