Martin Hotine’s Ordnance Survey (1935-1950)

Map Man

S01E08
E8
November 4, 2004

Overview

Being an OS surveyor in the 1930s was back-breaking work, as Nicholas Crane discovers. Braving the wilds of the Scottish Highlands, he conducts his own triangulation survey - will his efforts measure up to the exacting standards demanded by Britain's national mapping agency?

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