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

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.

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 ...

When OS maps were hand-drawn, cartographers would sometimes subtly write their own names in while drawing cliffs and other features. 342 million OS maps were printed for use by the Allied Forces in ...

Ordnance Survey has undergone its biggest shake-up in its 260-year history as digital versions of its maps have been made available to download for free. UK News Website of the Year 2024 Search Icon ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ordnance Survey has you covered with a guide to some of their favourite OS Pathfinder walks from across England, Scotland, and Wales - along with the guidebooks and maps you’ll need to explore them.

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 ...

Mirror.co.uk. 00:00, 12 May 2011; Updated 11:32, 27 Jan 2012; COLOUR blind people will soon be able to navigate the countryside with special maps created by Ordnance Survey. The maps, ...

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 ...