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MEGA MAP IS SPIRAL BOUND • That standby of the British motorist, the Ordnance Survey Motoring Atlas of Great Britian has appeared in a couple of new forms.
The most radically-changed is a spiral-bound edition, which at last offers these big-format (285x395) maps in a form which will stay flat and open at the required page. This almost a totally good thing — though some might worry that the traditional thinnish card cover might not survive long in this format. For some obscure reason (which might be as simple as the OS or Temple Press — which publishes this book — mapmakers coming from south of the border) the Western Isles, the Orkneys and Shetlands still appear in a smaller scale than the rest of the country. Motorists in those areas, where roads are few and far between, could do with a large scale as much as any.
The other is the traditional soft-bound edition, but produced to an even larger scale of 2.27 miles to the inch (1:144,132).
This new large scale is a mixed blessing. It has been achieved by blowing-up, rather than re-setting, the existing artwork. This means that the detail is fuzzy and much more importantly — there is no more detail than there was on the old maps, which means that the standard of informatic is no better, and the difficult bits are just easier to identify as difficult bits. It is to be hoped that the next edition w contain more information to justify its bigger scale — though that would undoubtedt be a very expensive exercise.
The Ordnance Survey Moto; ing Atlas of Great Britain, 5tf Edition, 1988, published by Ordnance Survey and Temple Press, Michelin House, 81 Fulham Road, London SW3 6RB. Price 24.95 for soft-bad £6.95 for spiral-bound edition.
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