OS, which makes 30,000 changes a day to its mapping database, also said it had seen impressive growth in the sales of its digital offering, with subscriptions to the OS Maps app rising 94 per cent.

Now its maps are available on the web, Jonathan Brown plots a path through the history of the Ordnance Survey ...

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 ...

OS was formed in 1791 to help protect Britain from the threat imposed by Napoleon Bonaparte by mapping the coastline and soon grew to become a mapping company. Today, according to OS, mapping only ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ordnance Survey mash-up takes on Google Maps Written by Andy McCue, Contributor Nov. 2, 2006 at 3:20 a.m. PT The Ordnance Survey (OS) is opening up some of its secret code to allow software ...

The name 'Ordnance Survey' was around at the time — and was written on a document at the time — but the maps were not yet generally referred to by the name by which would become famous. In 1805, the ...