http://bleaklow.com:80/tags/maps/ My opinions may be incorrect, but they are my own en Alan Burlison Wed, 29 Feb 2012 20:50:00 GMT Pebble (http://pebble.sourceforge.net) http://backend.userland.com/rss http://bleaklow.com/images/misc/logo.gif http://bleaklow.com:80/ http://bleaklow.com:80/2005/05/07/useful_directory_of_online_maps_for_the_uk.html <p> While I was looking for the format of links to the <a href="http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/getamap/">OS GetAMap</a> service for my last post I came across this <a href="http://www.explore-dictionary.com/dictionary/M/Maps_of_the_UK_and_Ireland.html#Online%20Maps">useful list</a> of online maps for the UK, which it seems has been lifted straight from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maps_of_the_UK_and_Ireland">Wikipedia</a> - why they didn't just link to the Wikipedia page I have no idea. I particularly liked the content of the <a href="http://www.magic.gov.uk/">Magic</a> website, which as Wikipedia says "is a web-based interactive map intended to bring together information on key environmental schemes and designations in one place", although the presentation is a bit clunky when compared to something as slick as <a href="http://maps.google.co.uk/">Google maps</a>, although Google in turn suffers from not being based on the OS mapping, so it's pretty useless outside of urban areas. </p> <p> And by the way, if you <strong>do</strong> want to link to somewhere on the OS's GetAMap service, the format of the URL is<br />http://getamap.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/getamap/frames.htm?mapAction=gaz&gazName=g&gazString=<br />with the normal OS grid reference appended onto it, e.g. <a href="http://getamap.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/getamap/frames.htm?mapAction=gaz&gazName=g&gazString=TQ302795">http://getamap.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/getamap/frames.htm?mapAction=gaz&gazName=g&gazString=TQ302795</a> </p> Peak District http://bleaklow.com:80/2005/05/07/useful_directory_of_online_maps_for_the_uk.html#comments http://bleaklow.com:80/2005/05/07/useful_directory_of_online_maps_for_the_uk.html Sat, 07 May 2005 07:13:28 GMT