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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 ...
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 ...
Mapping organisation Ordnance Survey plans to launch a solar-powered drone to capture higher quality images of the Earth. Its Astigan craft will fly higher than commercial airliners at 67,000 ft ...
Mapping organisation Ordnance Survey plans to launch a solar-powered drone to capture higher quality images of the Earth. Its Astigan craft will fly higher than commercial airliners at 67,000 ft ...
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 ...
ByDavid Szondy February 15, 2016 / Ordnance Survey creates map for Martian ramblers The new map of the surface of Mars is the first extraterrestrial map produced by the Ordnance Survey Ordnance ...
A mapping tool that gives a detailed picture of local information in almost every corner of the UK has been released by Ordnance Survey (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, and developers ...
Ordnance Survey, the 232-year-old national mapping agency, has released its first ever official mapping app on Apple iOS devices, taking the iconic paper maps into the digital age.
A free service from Ordnance Survey opens up its maps to developers wanting to design their own applications or work on mashups Written by Adrian Bridgwater, Contributor Feb. 1, 2008, 7:33 a.m. PT ...
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 ...