Showing posts with label map. Show all posts
Showing posts with label map. Show all posts

Tuesday, 21 October 2008

Hidden floor

I was coming back from lunch in the lift yesterday, and even though ive worked at the ordnance survey for 10 months now, for the first time i noticed this:


You probably didn't notice, but see how there's a number missing?


On my way out of the building later that day i took the stairs. i consciously tried to look out for the second floor. i missed it the first time, so i went back. then i realised there was a third floor, and below it was the first floor.. no second floor!

I got out my security pass and i consulted my map:



Its suspicious. i mean its unlikely that one of the oldest, largest and most thorough cartographic organisations in the world would forget to map an entire floor of its own headquarters.. right?


I asked luke earle, man of wisdom, if he knew anything about it. "oh yeh," he explained, "thats where they keep the children to make the maps. they put them in mangles and use the skins to print with. because theyre more durable, i suppose" hm, i dunno.. luke has told me strange things before, and i dont think they were all true. like that time he said the beans in the canteen were nice and when he said its better to be vegetarian. so i think i'm gonna investigate this one myself.