A quick Googling of "Ordinance Survey Maps" backs up my general feeling about OS cartographies: expanses of open land tend to be white so their sheets feel clean and fairly clinical. Unlike the Bartholomew. They've always used a much richer colour palette. Their sheets are lush. So these then are an anomaly: OS maps of NI, from 1963, that feel more like Bartholomew renderings. Who can explain this strange and unexpected phenomena?
There's lots of green and orange there, Richard. Perhaps there's a subliminal message.
Posted by: davidthedesigner | 09 April 2011 at 06:00 PM
Hello there: might it be because the Ordnance Survey was split in 1922 to form OS (for Great Britain); Ordnance Survey Ireland and Ordnance Survey for Northern Ireland? Perhaps you should title your post OSNI, rather than NI/OS!
Anyway, organisations aside, I much prefer a more colourful map whether there are features on the ground or not. If I had my own Ordnance Survey to play with, I'd make the empty areas more interesting than the towns. Perhaps just me?
Ben
Posted by: Ben B | 09 April 2011 at 09:37 PM