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 ...

Britain's Ordnance Survey is planning to roll out a new colour palette for its maps which enables those with colour blindness to use them. Colour blindness, or colour vision deficiency (CVD), affects ...

OS mapping data to be released to developers... The Ordnance Survey (OS) is opening up some of its secret code to allow software developers to create Google Maps-style mash-ups. Dubbed OpenSpace, the ...

The UK's national mapping agency, Ordnance Survey (OS), has released an upgraded Minecraft map of Great Britain, adding detailed buildings, trees, rivers and roads to the digital overview. The first ...

Ordnance Survey chief executive Nick Bolton has defended the mapping agency's place in the modern world and its ...

Data from Ordnance Survey (OS) is supporting 15 regional fibre broadband companies across the UK to identify target locations for the roll-out of the gigabit broadband network, as well as planning ...

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has commissioned Ordnance Survey (OS) to develop and mapping tools to build a “digital twin” of the real world that can be used to determine optimum ...

Ordnance Survey, the 232-year-old national mapping agency, has released its first ever official mapping app on Apple iOS devices, taking the iconic paper maps into the digital age. There are plenty of ...

The British mapping agency Ordnance Survey has created a map of the Martian surface using precision NASA data — and it's beautiful. PHOTOS: Tour 'The Martian' Movie Set… On Mars As an avid hiker when ...

A collection of quirky and long-forgotten place names from across Cheshire has been uncovered by archivists poring through old maps. Bogginshill, Snape Farm, Gnat Hole and Blackdog are just some of ...

IN reply to a question by Colonel A. W. Goodman in the House of Commons on December 12, the Right Hon. Walter E. Elliot, Minister of Agriculture, stated that “no decision has been taken to introduce ...

Ordnance Survey has revealed that an increase in demand for its data from financial services firms has helped its revenue near the £200m mark. Profit at Ordnance Survey has slipped despite its revenue ...