Despite these gripes, the Ordnance Survey’s progress continued unhindered until on January 1 1870, the last remaining sheet of the First Series of maps of England and Wales was finally published.

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 ...

Map symbols and direction. You can find where you are using an Ordnance Survey (OS) map. Features such as this information centre are identified on the map using symbols.

Where do maps and Ordnance Survey data take us? Well, it could be further than just for directions to the local ...

Britain's Ordnance Survey (OS) has released its first map of Mars to examine the potential of the agency's advanced cartographic methods in creating detailed, easy to understand maps for planning ...

British mapping agency Ordnance Survey (OS) has released an easy-to-read map of terrain from the planet Mars. Open data published by Nasa was used to make the map, which has been posted on the OS ...

The Ordnance Survey has opened up its map source code for online developers to use when creating Web 2.0 applications such as mashups. The OpenSpace project was announced last year, ...

The Ordnance Survey’s revenues from its OS Maps app rose by 13pc to £9.5m in the year to April, according to the service’s annual report. By contrast, sales of its paper maps fell by 5pc to ...

Irish Ordnance Survey Maps: A User’s Guide by Paul Mulligan: an invaluable companion, and not just for hill walkers.

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 ...

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 ...