I get a lot of pleasure from 'reading' OS maps - they are such works of art. And it amazes me how much intricate detail is captured on the paper maps - or now on the digital forms on phones and laptops.
I sometimes wonder why they used such extraordinarily beautiful [light] music to accompany these films - and most documentary type footage back then. I suppose they could have used any [then current] pop or jazz. Maybe cost came into it; library music and so on. More modern [post 60's] films and docs seem to use what I would say is 'one dimensional' music and background sounds - dominated by folk or pop styles. Whatever the reason they used what they did, I'm very grateful for it. I find this sort of music moving, atmospheric and it instantly puts me into a wistful [or deeper] mood. I become nostalgic - not only for the period depicted, but also for the plaintive approach taken in such filmed records. What it may have actually been like to be there at time is for me somewhat irrelevant - when faced with this level of recorded art.
From around aged 10 when my friends were reading comics, childrens adventure books and the classics, I was reading world atlases, large and small scale maps and, best of all, ordinance survey. I was hooked on countries I knew I'd never be able to visit, but through their maps I was there, exploring. Later on in life I became a lorry driver in Europe, driving in all the European countries using just a map, even today I don't have, want or need a satnav, maps only. Now retired, I will sometimes get a map out to trace a journey I once did, just for the fun if it.. I sometimes think that if the satellites fell out the sky, half the population couldn't find their way home..
@@chubeye1187 Actually, far from it - at least for urban maps. The best ever were the Victorian 60" to 1 mile - you don't get detail like that anymore. A lot of the urban stuff you purchase now for use in AutoCAD is, to put it tactfully, extremely disappointing.
@@ontheisland11 you do realise it is the same data (the old 50 inch is the 1:1250 data that was been digitised int he late 1990s) - and in many areas positional accuracy has been improved.
I wouldn't trust a Satnav as far as I could throw it. It makes people lazy and also does not take into account the fact that it has caused more problems than it's worth. Too many bells and whistles. Learn to read a map!
