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

Ordnance Survey maps are a thing of beauty – it would be nice if they could stay that way With the national mapping agency revamping the symbols on walking maps, put your rambling knowledge to ...

Map makers and coastguards are teaming up to collect "nicknames" for places to improve emergency responses. A new system by Ordnance Survey is being trialled in the Maritime and Coastguard Agency ...

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 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 ...

More school students are studying geography than ever before and sales of the Ordnance Survey’s paper versions rose 13 per cent in 2014 — the first increase for years.

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 ...

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 ...

The reassuringly timeless Ordnance Survey (OS) maps are getting a modern makeover with the mapmaker asking the public to recommend new, useful symbols.