Nick Pannell is switching from campaigning on local politics to lobbying Ordnance Survey to change the route of a classic ...

Drafts of new flagship Ordnance Survey maps have dropped the boundaries of national parks. The Ordnance Survey (OS) explorer map, the standard walkers' guide, currently shows national park boundaries ...

The modern Ordnance Survey can be dated from the mid-18th century, when military engineer William Roy was tasked with a small-scale survey of Scotland. His map would enable the Highland Clearances.

Following a closed alpha launch on 14 December, Ordnance Survey has completed testing of its OS OpenSpace API. It is now available for developers to mash up their own applications using the UK ...

Ordnance Survey (OS) is the UK’s national mapping agency. It provides the most accurate and up-to-date geographic data. For more than 200 years, its maps featured symbols for the most commonly ...

The Ordnance Survey (OS), Britain’s national mapping authority, has used its own open data to make an accurate 3D model of the UK within popular sandbox building game Minecraft. The Ordnance Survey ...

For much of its 233-year history, the Ordnance Survey has been synonymous with detailed maps of the British countryside, beloved by ramblers and orienteers. But the UK’s national mapping agency ...

Ordnance Survey (OS) is the UK’s national mapping agency. It provides the most accurate and up-to-date geographic data. From the Government to businesses across the nation, including Google and ...

Although still popular with many people (enough to sell 2 million units a year) paper maps make up just 5% of Ordnance Survey’s business these days, whereas their app has over 5 million users.

DURING last autumn, the council of the Chartered Surveyors' Institution decided to press for an official inquiry into the present position of the maps and plans of the Ordnance Survey, and an ...

THE new edition of the one-inch and quarter-inch Ordnance Survey maps is described, with specimen sheets, by Lt,-Col. W. J. Johnston in the Geographical Journal for March (vol. lv., No. 3). Three ...