Maps Formats Available and their Terms and Conditions
The standard Royal Observer Corp (ROC) nuclear monitoring post maps are printed on an U.K. outline map with a grid overlay. This makes it difficult to assimilate the locations of numbered spots with the physical layout of the towns and cities.
It took me a considerable period of time to plot all the 837 mainland ROC Posts on an Ordnance Survey base map. Unfortunately the lack of a free Northern Ireland base map means Belfast No.31 Group is plotted on an outline map only. I am making my many hours of work available free of charge, note the copyright notice restricts people from selling my maps or removing the attribution box from the maps.
Maps Available
A4 Single Sheet Group Map, for groups small enough to print on A4
A4 Multiple Sheet Group Map, for larger groups
A2 Southern England and Wales, Northern England
A2 Whole of Scotland
Ordnance Survey Copyright
The OS Terms and Conditions require you agree to display certain text on their maps. I have added this text, but you have to agree not to remove it.
It may seem 'odd' but printing and using a map displaying the Copyright notice is legal, its removal is illegal.
Prepare for Downloading Maps
Please click on the [Make Document Links Ready] button to confirm you agree to the Open Government Licence and the Creative Commons Licence. Right-Click the document link and pick the option to save the document to you computer. Save Link As...
A range of maps are encapsulated within a PDF files for ease of printing. The group maps are centred on one group and usually show parts of surrounding groups too. Open the PDF directly in your browser, but its better to save a copy to disk and print it later as Adobe Acrobat offers a wider range of printing options not always found in browser's viewers.
Group Maps of R.O.C. Nuclear Monitoring Posts
Centred On
Paper Format
Link
Aberdeen Group
2 x A4
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Ayr Group
A4
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Bedford Group
A4
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Belfast Group
A4
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Bristol Group
A4
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Carlisle Group
A4
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Colchester Group
A4
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Coventry Group
A4
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Dundee Group
A4
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Durham Group
A4
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Edinburgh Group
A4
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Exeter Group
A4
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Horsham Group
A4
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Inverness Group
2 x A4
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Lincoln Group
A4
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Maidstone Group
A4
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Norwich Group
A4
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North Wales Group
A4
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Oxford Group
A4
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Preston Group
A4
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Shrewsbury Group
A4
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South Wales Group
A4
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Winchester Group
A4
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Yeovil Group
A4
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York Group
A4
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Large Area Maps
Save a copy to disk and print it later. Adobe viewer can print the large A2 poster drawings across four A4 sheets of paper, using the poster print mode. After printing these can be assembled into a large poster. It may be possible to create very large maps by playing with Tile Scale %.
The poster sized "Large Area" maps overlap to allow the creation of a very large country wide map.
After agreeing to the copyright details at the top of the page. Please right click the link and pick the option Save Link As...
R.O.C. Nuclear Monitoring Post Large Area Maps
Title
Paper Size
Download Link
Southern England and Wales Groups: EXE YEO WIN HOR MAI SWA BRI OXF BED COL NWA SHR COV LIN NOR
A2
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Northern England Groups: NWA SHR COV LIN NOR PRE YOR CAR DUR
A2
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Whole of Scotland Groups: AYR EDI DUN INV ABE
A2
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Whole of UK large map All 25 Groups
A1
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Boundary Maps
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UKWMO / ROC Group Boundaries
Title
Paper Size
Link
ROC Boundaries
A4
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ROC Boundaries
A2
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Regional Government
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