Staffs LUG 14th January 2020

2. Pre-GPS Mapping

  • No real history of Co-operative mapping

  • Usually Governmental/proprietary
  • - Ordnance Survey - Military basis – Jacobites – Highlands
  • - Street mapping - A to Z, Geographers

  • Copyright vehemently protected

  • - ‘Trap’ Streets - AA £20m settlement
  • - £45 for licence – Local Plan
  • - ‘Old Parish Boundaries of Staffordshire’ - print run impounded
  • - 50 year limit on OS
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