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  1. #Mapping A World Of Change

    Inviting the Welsh poet Grug Muse to compose & recite a triptych inspired by #OrdnanceSurvey's incredible maps of Aberfan following the tragedy there produced one of the most emotion-evoking presentations ever at a conference.

    The maps can be seen at the The National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth or their website :

    viewer.library.wales/6548085

  2. Anyone know what impact #KesslerSyndrome would have on #GNSS ?

    I assume it renders these services at least partly (or even wholly) unusable, even if the satellites themselves are unaffected

    We use GNSS a fair bit at work, both for staffs own navigation devices (when they are visiting clients) and the visit logging system (which confirms they are in correct location), I expect I have to prepare for disruption to this as part of #BusinessContinuity

    At least it seems folk from #Zimbabwe (where many of our staff are from) get good #education on how to use #maps in high #school and their national mapping is very similar to #OrdnanceSurvey

  3. Anyone know what impact #KesslerSyndrome would have on #GNSS ?

    I assume it renders these services at least partly (or even wholly) unusable, even if the satellites themselves are unaffected

    We use GNSS a fair bit at work, both for staffs own navigation devices (when they are visiting clients) and the visit logging system (which confirms they are in correct location), I expect I have to prepare for disruption to this as part of #BusinessContinuity

    At least it seems folk from #Zimbabwe (where many of our staff are from) get good #education on how to use #maps in high #school and their national mapping is very similar to #OrdnanceSurvey

  4. Anyone know what impact #KesslerSyndrome would have on #GNSS ?

    I assume it renders these services at least partly (or even wholly) unusable, even if the satellites themselves are unaffected

    We use GNSS a fair bit at work, both for staffs own navigation devices (when they are visiting clients) and the visit logging system (which confirms they are in correct location), I expect I have to prepare for disruption to this as part of #BusinessContinuity

    At least it seems folk from #Zimbabwe (where many of our staff are from) get good #education on how to use #maps in high #school and their national mapping is very similar to #OrdnanceSurvey

  5. Anyone know what impact #KesslerSyndrome would have on #GNSS ?

    I assume it renders these services at least partly (or even wholly) unusable, even if the satellites themselves are unaffected

    We use GNSS a fair bit at work, both for staffs own navigation devices (when they are visiting clients) and the visit logging system (which confirms they are in correct location), I expect I have to prepare for disruption to this as part of #BusinessContinuity

    At least it seems folk from #Zimbabwe (where many of our staff are from) get good #education on how to use #maps in high #school and their national mapping is very similar to #OrdnanceSurvey

  6. Anyone know what impact #KesslerSyndrome would have on #GNSS ?

    I assume it renders these services at least partly (or even wholly) unusable, even if the satellites themselves are unaffected

    We use GNSS a fair bit at work, both for staffs own navigation devices (when they are visiting clients) and the visit logging system (which confirms they are in correct location), I expect I have to prepare for disruption to this as part of #BusinessContinuity

    At least it seems folk from #Zimbabwe (where many of our staff are from) get good #education on how to use #maps in high #school and their national mapping is very similar to #OrdnanceSurvey

  7. If anyone's following along, now streetmap.co.uk has disappeared, a very similar (arguably easier to use) site with #ordnancesurvey #maps (1:25k and 1:50k and larger scales) is:

    sysmaps.co.uk/sysmaps_os.html

    #uk

  8. Hmm. Interesting. Features I have added to Open Street Map are now showing up on Ordnance Survey maps without any attribution.
    Need to do some more digging on this.
    #osm #ordnancesurvey #openstreetmap

  9. @dougcoulson I can add an interesting corollary. There was a plan to develop the Yorkshire village of #Ravenscar as a small holiday report, but the initiative failed. Interestingly, the proposed street layout made it onto the 1910 #UK #ordnancesurvey map. This link shows the unbuilt town in all its imagined glory. Not exactly a 'paper town' but not a real town either. maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=