• Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!

May I introduce you to Magic ?

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No, not Paul Daniels and his ilk but an amazing mapping online digital reference map of the UK that has so many, selectable layers. I was looking at Ancient Woodlands today, for example.

http://www.magic.gov.uk is the website.

If you love maps and just having a look around then this site will while away many a happy hour or three.

Warning...I find it very addictive.
 
Very interesting Roger. Thanks for posting. I look forward to losing a good few hours now!!

Slightly surprised that the OS mapping is over 20years out of date in a couple of areas (Romsey and Minehead) that I'm intimately familiar with.

When compared to the local authority maps for example, the magic ones are way behind which seems strange for a .gov site.

Bob
 
I loose many hours looking at maps ! lol

one thing is tracing waterways both ways to the sea and the source :lol: :oops:

and I love old maps .. since we bought this house and wanted to look back 200 yrs to when it was built
 
Tusses":1s2h0nt2 said:
I loose many hours looking at maps ! lol

one thing is tracing waterways both ways to the sea and the source :lol: :oops:

and I love old maps .. since we bought this house and wanted to look back 200 yrs to when it was built
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Some of us must be SOGs on this forum! :lol:

My last job required me to be viewing a GIS system on a daily basis, and as my job related to roads, I found it fascinating how the roads, i.e. lines of communication, contributed to local history. I had access to late 19thC, 1930s and 1950s maps.

On one occasion following a fatal crash involving someone pulling out of a lay by, HM Coroner asked us why we didn't put no entry signs on the 'wrong' end of a lay by when we build them. I was able to show him that the lay by was there in 1880 something and was was at the crest of a rise between two river valleys and was normally used for the horses to rest, or lay by, after climbing the rise. Therefore they are inherited by highway authorities and not 'built. (there are other reasons why NE signs can't go up on sites like that, but the map convinced him and the Police.)
 
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