OS Select maps



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Andrew Conroy

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Hi folks,

I'm looking at getting an OS Select 1:25000 map ready for the North Downs
Challenge walk this year (saves the walk keep swapping between a couple
of maps). However, I wondered if the folded version was as waterproof as
a standard OS map? I've seen a flat OS Select map bought (from a map shop
rather than direct from OS) and it was printed on a large format inkjet
printer, so the ink would smudge horribly if it got a bit wet, not what
you want out on the Downs in the pouring rain.

Anyone got any experience of these?

Andrew

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In article <[email protected]>,
Andrew Conroy <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi folks,

> I'm looking at getting an OS Select 1:25000 map ready for the North
> Downs Challenge walk this year (saves the walk keep swapping between a
> couple of maps). However, I wondered if the folded version was as
> waterproof as a standard OS map? I've seen a flat OS Select map bought
> (from a map shop rather than direct from OS) and it was printed on a
> large format inkjet printer, so the ink would smudge horribly if it got
> a bit wet, not what you want out on the Downs in the pouring rain.

> Anyone got any experience of these?

I can't believe nobody has any experience of using OS Select maps!
Somebody out there must have got one, so what's it like?

Andrew

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"Andrew Conroy" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> In article <[email protected]>,
> Andrew Conroy <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi folks,
>
> > I'm looking at getting an OS Select 1:25000 map ready for the North
> > Downs Challenge walk this year (saves the walk keep swapping between a
> > couple of maps). However, I wondered if the folded version was as
> > waterproof as a standard OS map?

> > I've seen a flat OS Select map bought
> > (from a map shop rather than direct from OS) and it was printed on a
> > large format inkjet printer, so the ink would smudge horribly if it got
> > a bit wet, not what you want out on the Downs in the pouring rain.

I can't imagine OS selling any map that was likely
to smudge in the wet.
A search on the website indicates the map are
printed using a high quality inkjet printer,
maybe high quality means the inks are water proof?


> > Anyone got any experience of these?

Sorry, I don't have any experience of these custom
maps, you could try emailing them, they're usually quite prompt with the
replies.

[email protected]


> I can't believe nobody has any experience of using OS Select maps!
> Somebody out there must have got one, so what's it like?
>
> Andrew
>
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>
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"Andrew Conroy" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> In article <[email protected]>,
> Andrew Conroy <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>
>> I'm looking at getting an OS Select 1:25000 map ready for the North
>> Downs Challenge walk this year (saves the walk keep swapping between a
>> couple of maps). However, I wondered if the folded version was as
>> waterproof as a standard OS map? I've seen a flat OS Select map bought
>> (from a map shop rather than direct from OS) and it was printed on a
>> large format inkjet printer, so the ink would smudge horribly if it got
>> a bit wet, not what you want out on the Downs in the pouring rain.
>
>> Anyone got any experience of these?
>
> I can't believe nobody has any experience of using OS Select maps!
> Somebody out there must have got one, so what's it like?
>

Andrew - a significant number of people in this NG already have Anquet,
Memory, Fugawi etc. As that fulfills all the OS Select function - and more,
you might indeed be asking in the wrong place.



druidh
 
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 22:45:38 +0000 (GMT), Andrew Conroy wrote:

> I can't believe nobody has any experience of using OS Select maps!
> Somebody out there must have got one, so what's it like?

I bought a couple just before Christmas (not yet used in anger) and they
say that are water resistant.

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Bitstring <[email protected]>, from the wonderful
person Andrew Conroy <[email protected]> said
>In article <[email protected]>,
> Andrew Conroy <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>
>> I'm looking at getting an OS Select 1:25000 map ready for the North
>> Downs Challenge walk this year (saves the walk keep swapping between a
>> couple of maps). However, I wondered if the folded version was as
>> waterproof as a standard OS map? I've seen a flat OS Select map bought
>> (from a map shop rather than direct from OS) and it was printed on a
>> large format inkjet printer, so the ink would smudge horribly if it got
>> a bit wet, not what you want out on the Downs in the pouring rain.
>
>> Anyone got any experience of these?
>
>I can't believe nobody has any experience of using OS Select maps!
>Somebody out there must have got one, so what's it like?

I have one hung on the wall - it does not look very waterproof to me,
but I ain't-a-gonna wet it to check. For outside use I use tracklogs
software (www.tracklogs.co..uk) .. get a site-centred set of 1:25k
digital data, print some double sides A4 sheets at whatever scale I like
(usually 1:12500), stick them in A4 transparent pockets, seal the edges,
and take them anywhere. After 6 months or so (or a couple of uses
wrapping barbed wire fences. 8>.) they are knackered so I print some
more.

This is cheaper than paying OS select prices. and you get more maps. And
you can have 1:10k if you want to. And there's no folding to cope with.
And you cans scribble on them if you want to. And use them to load stuff
into your GPS.

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"Bootlaces" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 23:42:26 GMT
> in <news:[email protected]>
> JeffC (JeffC <[email protected]>) wrote :
>
> >
>
> Eh?
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Oh dear, I'm getting confused now, 'tis trouble of reading URC and URW on
the same night, plus I'll have to stop drinking the strong stuff, Jersey
Gold Top goes straight to my head :)

Jeff (hic) C
 
Hi Andrew,
Got two select maps of the Torridon area last year,
although I ended up with four as the Post Office lost the first two and then
'found' and delivered them after two replacements had been dispatched They
came folded, one was v.badly creased, but all are still in use. The paper
has proven to be water repellent, but does feel different from the shop
bought Explorer and Landranger maps.

AW
"Andrew Conroy" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> In article <[email protected]>,
> Andrew Conroy <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>
>> I'm looking at getting an OS Select 1:25000 map ready for the North
>> Downs Challenge walk this year (saves the walk keep swapping between a
>> couple of maps). However, I wondered if the folded version was as
>> waterproof as a standard OS map? I've seen a flat OS Select map bought
>> (from a map shop rather than direct from OS) and it was printed on a
>> large format inkjet printer, so the ink would smudge horribly if it got
>> a bit wet, not what you want out on the Downs in the pouring rain.
>
>> Anyone got any experience of these?
>
> I can't believe nobody has any experience of using OS Select maps!
> Somebody out there must have got one, so what's it like?
>
> Andrew
>
> --
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> | Andrew Conroy, Owl-Art Un-Ltd. | email: [email protected]
> |
> | Coming to you on an Acorn RiscPC SA110 | Snail: 58 Newland Road,
> |
> | | Worthing,
> |
> | 'OwlArt' on IRC (ZFC A) | West Sussex. U.K.
> |
> +----------------------------------------+---------------------------------+
> The impossible I can do at once, miracles take a little longer!!
 
JeffC wrote on Sat, 15 Jan 2005 00:33:09 GMT....
> "Bootlaces" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> >
> > Eh?
>
> What???

Jeff, I think there is confusion because of the very odd way you have
your Outlook Express newsreader set up to post messages.

Starting from the top, there are a couple of lines of blank space.
Then your signature. Then the previous poster's message that you are
replying to. Then your reply.

This makes it appear that you've posted just a blank message, unless
the reader is determined and goes looking through the whole thing to
see what you've done with it.

The problem stems from Microsoft's assumption that you'll want to post
your reply at the top of the previous poster's message. That's not a
very good idea, so you post at the bottom, as most people prefer. But
you've got OE set up to insert your signature automatically, and it
still puts it at the top.

I would remove the automatic signature setting from Tools > Options >
Signatures. You can still insert it at the end of your message after
you've typed it, by using Insert > Signature.

Or get a different newsreader, which automatically puts your signature
at the bottom.

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I noticed that Message-ID:
<[email protected]> from Tim Jackson
contained the following:

>The problem stems from Microsoft's assumption that you'll want to post
>your reply at the top of the previous poster's message. That's not a
>very good idea, so you ...

....should quote sufficient to give context and...

>...post at the bottom, as most people prefer.



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Tim Jackson wrote:
> JeffC wrote on Sat, 15 Jan 2005 00:33:09 GMT....
>> "Bootlaces" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> news:[email protected]...
>>>
>>> Eh?
>>
>> What???
>
> Or get a different newsreader, which automatically puts your signature
> at the bottom.

Or get OE-QuoteFix.

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4029.html

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In article <[email protected]>,
Marc Cornelius <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 22:45:38 +0000 (GMT), Andrew Conroy wrote:

> > I can't believe nobody has any experience of using OS Select maps!
> > Somebody out there must have got one, so what's it like?

> I bought a couple just before Christmas (not yet used in anger) and
> they say that are water resistant.

Thanks, and to everyone else who replied as well. I've not got Anquet
etc. (haven't got a PC, I use Acorn RISC OS instead!) so can't reply on
printing my own :-( As there's 2/3 of us doing the North Downs Challenge
Walk together then we can split the cost and it's not that expensive that
way.

Andrew

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| | Worthing, |
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+----------------------------------------+---------------------------------+
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On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 23:56:46 GMT, druidh wrote:

> Andrew - a significant number of people in this NG already have Anquet,
> Memory, Fugawi etc.

But do they have printers that can print on anything larger than A4?


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Marc Cornelius wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 23:56:46 GMT, druidh wrote:
>
>
>>Andrew - a significant number of people in this NG already have Anquet,
>>Memory, Fugawi etc.
>
>
> But do they have printers that can print on anything larger than A4?
>
>
I believe that OS licensing restrictions prevent print at anything more
than A4 (although there are a number of ways around this). However, I
find that I'd rather have a few A4 sheets (or indeed even smaller) than
a larger sheet which has to be folded numerous ways to follow a path so
I don't normally consider this to be a disadvantage. Different of course
if your're after a display item.


druidh
 
The message <[email protected]>
from Marc Cornelius <[email protected]> contains these words:

> > Andrew - a significant number of people in this NG already have Anquet,
> > Memory, Fugawi etc.

> But do they have printers that can print on anything larger than A4?

Shouldn't make any difference. The OS has decreed that A4 is as large as
you can have. But in practice it doesn't really matter. 2 sheets of A4
can be laminated back to back and provided the scale is sensible few
walkers would need more than that.

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Bitstring <[email protected]>, from the
wonderful person Marc Cornelius <[email protected]> said
>On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 23:56:46 GMT, druidh wrote:
>
>> Andrew - a significant number of people in this NG already have Anquet,
>> Memory, Fugawi etc.
>
>But do they have printers that can print on anything larger than A4?

Wouldn't help - OS licensing restrictions set an upper limit of A4
printing (although there are kludges). Double sided A4 is actually
convenient, although I have to fold it to A5 before I can stuff it in a
trouser pocket anyway.

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A better way, download the map to a pocketpc.

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"GSV Three Minds in a Can" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Bitstring <[email protected]>, from the
> wonderful person Marc Cornelius <[email protected]> said
>>On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 23:56:46 GMT, druidh wrote:
>>
>>> Andrew - a significant number of people in this NG already have Anquet,
>>> Memory, Fugawi etc.
>>
>>But do they have printers that can print on anything larger than A4?
>
> Wouldn't help - OS licensing restrictions set an upper limit of A4
> printing (although there are kludges). Double sided A4 is actually
> convenient, although I have to fold it to A5 before I can stuff it in a
> trouser pocket anyway.
>
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Bitstring <[email protected]>, from the wonderful person
Kenneth Miles <[email protected]> said
>A better way, download the map to a pocketpc.

Pocket PCs weight more than A4 paper and don't fold nearly as well. You
also can't use them to wrap barbed wire for an emergency stile. 8>.

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In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected] says...
> A better way, download the map to a pocketpc.
>
>

as long as you only intend to walk for a few hours (if lucky).

Give me long-life powered paper map any day. Plus it will be of a size
where you can actually read it, align a compass to take bearings, etc
etc.

There are some occasions where technology is not the answer.

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