OS Explorer maps

[dannyboy77]

Hello all just a quick question on OS Explorer maps. Green lanes are shown as green crosses but what’s the score with green dots as some green crosses go to green dots and green dots sometimes go between roads.

I have OS explorer maps 266, 265, 264, 256, OL17, OL18 & OL23 (all of north Wales and Snowdonia) latest edition in hard copy and PDF (if any one wants a copy on disc?) (having an FTP address were people can up and down load maps would be great and illegal! But that’s just a thought for someone to take up???!) I am currently looking at routes and some seem a bit iffy when looking on Google earth as they go through fields etc. I don’t want to come away with bullet holes in my surf nor miss a good driving opportunity.

Can anyone enlighten me or give OS co-ords for good lanes?

[rainmaker02]

According to the legend the green crosses are "Byway open to all traffic". The green dots are "Other routes with public access....restrictions may be checked with local highways authority".
Not much help seeing as how you've still got to get a real person to tell you whether you can or can't, but better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.

[an1mal_69]

Only proper way to do it is to get a list together of where you want to go..if they are close enough to reccy, do so. This is often all you need to do as there will be signs up or blatantly obvious you cant pass.

If your routes are further afield, i always cross reference with Wayfinder but many of these are out of date. So, if you want to be 100% legal, get in touch with the relevant council office and they will tell you if you can play or not..

[BioHazard]

http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswe...wEGMlegend.pdf

[dannyboy77]

Only proper way to do it is to get a list together of where you want to go..if they are close enough to reccy, do so. This is often all you need to do as there will be signs up or blatantly obvious you cant pass.

If your routes are further afield, i always cross reference with Wayfinder but many of these are out of date. So, if you want to be 100% legal, get in touch with the relevant council office and they will tell you if you can play or not..

do yuo fancy doing a reccy some time? find new lanes and test them out in the process i will speak to highways in flint and denbigh council though i know some people in there! will try and get some answers!

[dannyboy77]

just had a nice long chat with a lovely woman in flint council!

she said OS ask each council for info of all foot paths byways etc so the green crosses are info from the council so they are OK to drive on. the green dots are private land and the owner has final say of what mode of transport you can travel the path on

well a little clearer now!

[an1mal_69]

do yuo fancy doing a reccy some time? find new lanes and test them out in the process i will speak to highways in flint and denbigh council though i know some people in there! will try and get some answers!

Deffo up for that matey..got quite a few runs plotted over this way to investigate.

just had a nice long chat with a lovely woman in flint council!

she said OS ask each council for info of all foot paths byways etc so the green crosses are info from the council so they are OK to drive on. the green dots are private land and the owner has final say of what mode of transport you can travel the path on

As for that one..all depends how up to date our maps are. I went an bought a load of 1:50k recently as backup (in paper)..got the whole of the UK in 1:25k on MM which runs with GPS on my phone for when we're out an about

[MattF]

I have OS explorer maps 266, 265, 264, 256, OL17, OL18 & OL23 (all of north Wales and Snowdonia) latest edition in hard copy and PDF (if any one wants a copy on disc?)

What size are the PDF files, in total?

[dannyboy77]

each side of the map is about 20MB os in all, all the maps are about 160MB together

[MattF]

each side of the map is about 20MB os in all, all the maps are about 160MB together

If you want to pop them up here:

http://forums.bauchan.org/devforum/forums.php


Login: upload
Pass: upload123

Just click on the file uploader link on the nav bar once you've logged in.

[dannyboy77]

just trying to up load one now for a test. will everyone on here be able to view it and download it? i assume we cant do this on this site??

[MattF]

just trying to up load one now for a test. will everyone on here be able to view it and download it? i assume we cant do this on this site??

Cheers. I'll get them transferred over to the downloads site once they're up there so that others can access them.

[dannyboy77]

will do some more thorugh out the day. whats the link to see them? can we put something like this on the video section as i assume the moorland romp takes up quite a bit of space?

[dannyboy77]

just putting 5 more maps on now!

[MattF]

will do some more thorugh out the day. whats the link to see them? can we put something like this on the video section as i assume the moorland romp takes up quite a bit of space?

You'd have to ask Lucky with regards to alterations on this site. As for the maps, I'll be putting them with the Salisbury one that woodzie sorted out over on here:

http://forums.bauchan.org/4x4/forum.php?id=74