How to read the Harvey's map?

On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 17:19:30 +0100, Peewiglet <[email hidden]>
wrote:

Hmmm... scrub that query: I've found the answer. It's to do with
height. I thought it must be, but couldn't find it. Now I'm further
confused, though, becaus I'd been looking the Harvey 1:25k legend,
whereas the answer is in the Superscale 1:25k. Can anyone tell me what
the difference is between Harvey 1:25k and Superscale?

(I realise it's probably a stupid question, but this really is how
thick I am about maps. I can't help it...)

Best wishes,
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Peewiglet

In article <[email hidden]>, Peewiglet
<[email hidden]> writes

Quoted message said:

I've never used a Harvey map before, but I've read good things about
them and think they may suit me better than the OS 1:25k.

I'm reading about the map legend in the Anquet help file, but I can't
find an explanation of the different colours on the screen. For
instance, I'm using the Lakes map and looking at the Scafell Pike
area. Scafell etc are shown in a sort of flexh colour, whereas some
surrounding land is in a lighter shade. Can anyone tell me what this
means, please? It doesn't seem to correspond to any of the colours
shown in the legend in the help file, as far as I can tell.

I only have paper Harvey's maps so this might not be a lot of help...

Is it the background colour you are talking about or the colours of the
contours? Harvey use background colours to indicate the type of
vegetation. Fell or moorland are white and rough pasture ivory. The
other thing it might be is that areas of scattered rock / boulder are
indicated by small dots and contours over rocky ground are grey whereas
they are brown elsewhere.

I hope that is a bit of help.

Quoted message said:

I paid for this map by card on the phone direct from Anquet before
10.30 on Tuesday morning, and asked if they could post it out that
afternoon because I was hoping to use it this weekend. There wasn't a
supplier near me where I could pick one up. It's a little
disappointing that despite my request they didn't actually send it
until Thursday, and now that I'm home from work and able to install it
there's no-one there to help. It's not the end of the world, but I'm
not very impressed.

It is great when we get good service but that does tend to highlight the
occasions when people drop the ball.

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Dominic Sexton
http://www.dscs.demon.co.uk/