What a wonderful thing this is. Stuffy old Ordnance Survey, best known for creating the maps you used to use before your phone did it much better, has created an absolutely vast Minecraft map of ...
Geospatial data is hot property, and with more than 200 years of experience, Ordnance Survey (OS) is a world leader in its collection, organisation and dissemination. In combination with other data, ...
Getting stuck in Slippery Hole might seem hilarious, but this could actually be a matter of life and death. From the Eye of the Butt to the Dalek, Britain has thousands of bizarre nicknames for sea ...
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 ...
Ordnance Survey, the body responsible for mapping Great Britain from top to toe, have recreated 86,000 square miles of it in Minecraft. The map was built in two weeks by intern Joseph Braybrook and OS ...
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 ...
Where you can launch your paddleboard from or find a farm shop could be added to OS leisure maps Ordnance Survey (OS) has revealed the top four new symbols people would like to see added to its ...
A union has called a national mapping service's plans to make almost 100 redundancies "short-sighted". Prospect said the decision by Ordnance Survey, based in Southampton, Hampshire, to lay off 95 ...
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 ...