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

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 ...

The paper maps, first published in 1801, are updated every three to five years, but the ‘master copy’ map of the UK is a huge digital file which is updated with 20,000 new pieces of ...

Existing OS maps already include more details than many people realise. For example, they don’t just indicate the location of a church, the symbols used specify whether the building has a pointy ...

OS Maps app is available to download for free with standard mapping, and for £28.99 a year for the premium edition. The launch in Northern Ireland follows recent expansions of OS Maps in ...

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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 ...

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 ...