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 ...

how-to guides and a user forum in our support section for those new to this kind of JavaScript 'slippy map' technology," said Joseph Greenwood, a product manager at Ordnance Survey. News of OS ...

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 mapping data should be free from April 2010. Ordnance Survey map data will be freely available online to everybody from 2010, the Government has announced. The move will allow people ...

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).

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, and developers ...

We can't think of a better gift than a personalised map from the experts at Ordnance Survey — they're certainly on the wish list of every map-lover in the Londonist office (that'd be all of us ...

'I am told there are people who do not care for maps,” Robert Louis Stevenson wrote in 1894. “And I find it hard to believe.” Stevenson’s fascination with charts, surveys and maps led to ...

For more than 200 years, its maps featured symbols for the most commonly sought spots including battle sites and churches. However, unlike the Ordnance Survey maps’ symbology, what people for on a map ...