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 ...

Nigel Brown has built up a collection of nearly 2,000 Ordnance Survey maps over 60 years - but he admits he will probably still buy some more. As a 10-year-old, he and a group of friends got hold of ...

Ordnance Survey (OS) was a 50-year-old company when a fire swept through its first headquarters at the Tower of London in 1841 — the crown jewels saved ahead of stored paper maps. The national mapping ...

New landscape data will have a “significant impact” on biodiversity, carbon accounting and environmental projects across Britain, the national mapping service has said. Ordnance Survey, which is known ...

The chief executive of Ordnance Survey has disclosed how the venerable mapping organisation is battling US behemoths Google and Apple to maintain its significance in the modern era. Nick Bolton, who ...

All parts of the public sector in Great Britain have free access to a wide range of services from the government-owned mapping agency Ordnance Survey (OS), through the Public Sector Mapping Agreement ...

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 ...

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 ...

The digital heritage resource focuses on the early years of ordnance surveying in Ireland, bringing together maps, texts, archaeological and toponymical material. Researchers at the University of ...

Nearly 100 jobs will be axed at Ordnance Survey, the Daily Echo can reveal. The Southampton-based mapping agency currently employees 1,400 people, but hundreds of staff were told on Tuesday that their ...