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More Maps uploaded

I’ve uploaded several new maps, these are: 13 – Kirkby Stephen and Appleby – 1930 82 – Stratford on Avon – 1940 120 – Bridgewater and Quantock hills – 1929 125 – Guildford and Horsham – 1932 139 – Sidmouth and Bridport – 1932 142 – Isle of Wight – 1930 I’ve also refined the [...]

Old Os Maps status test

Coming soon several new maps.

More new maps on the way

I’m currently working on scanning, stitching and positioning several new maps: 13 Kirkby Stephen and Appleby 120 Bridgewater and Quantock Hills 82 Stratford on Avon 125 Guildford and Horsham 139 Sidmouth and Bridgeport 142 Isle of Wight I’ve also aquired a duplicate of 133 Chichester and Worthing which I might use because it’s an earlier [...]

New Maps Update

The Tile server has now been moved to goDaddy, lets hope theyre more reliable, they should be according to their bumph. The page now goes to a php script on godaddy so there’s no redirect involved, this should result in a small performance improvement. Four new maps have been added , 36 – manchester – [...]

Alignment issues

I’ve been looking at the current set of scans against the trig pillars database from nearby. Most of the pillars seem to be out by around 80-130m with the scans typically being south and slightly to the west of the trig pillar. The deviation is fairly consistent across most of the country. I’m trying to [...]

Tiles back on the old hosts

After a fair amount of effort I’ve managed to put the current set of maps back on the original reliable servers. Tiles are now split with level 03 on ponies and the remainder on plus net. This can’t go on forever beause I’m going to run out of space. Currently looking for a new host [...]

Hosting issues!

Well, one day after I moved my tiles to the new host I’m having to reset back to the old host! I don’t know if there’s a special problem with primitive hosting or not, but the DNS doesn’t even resolve at the moment. I’m going back to my fallback plan. Level 3 tiles : 230MB [...]

Also Today

I’ve moved my tile server script to point at tiles.snaffle.me.uk, the site appeared to be down for some time this morning, but it is up now. I’m already looking again for another web-hoster, a more reliable one! I doubt I can find one that’s cheaper!

Added three new maps to the site.

Maps added are: 4th Series 114, 93, 105 I’m now automatically geo-referencing many of the scans using a cassini projection. This brings the number of maps to: 4th Series: 18 other: 10 Stats: The total size of all the maps at all resolutions: 03: 232.53 Meg 04: 80.34 Meg 05: 23.13 Meg 06: 5.55 Meg [...]