NEW MAPS FOR OLD.
[To THE EDITOR or Tllt "SPECTATOR." J SIR,—Your correspondents in last week's Spectator who mention that the Ordnance Survey maps are almost unknown to the public, and therefore unused, are in error,—so far at least as our district is concerned. In the public library the one-inch and six-inch Survey maps are constantly being con- sulted, and their value is well known. The point in which your correspondents are perfectly right is that the Ordnance Survey maps are not purchased by the general public, and this is due to the simple fact that they are not purchasable in a convenient separate form. If you want to walk or cycle into any particular district, you cannot take one of the sheets of the Survey maps in your pocket ; you must get one of the admirable Bartholomew or Johnston folding-maps, on cloth, easily obtainable, cheap, and for obvious reasons quite as good . as the Ordnance maps; in fact, they have been rendered
possible by the Ordnance Survey. If the Ordnance maps are to be purchased by the general public separately, as is suggested, the Department must provide them, mounted on linen or some such material, in a handy, usable form at a
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