“EVERYTHING happens somewhere” would be a good motto for the Ordnance Survey, Britain’s premier mapmaker since 1791 and now a leader in computerized map resources and their astounding 21st century ...

In 1747, King George II commissioned a new map of the Scottish highlands, to help fight the Jacobite uprising. That exercise led to the creation of the Ordnance Survey, a project to map Great Britain ...

The Geospatial Commission, which is charged with opening up Ordnance Survey (OS) data for small businesses – as announced by the chancellor of the exchequer, Philip Hammond, in his November 2017 ...

Ordnance Survey, the UK's mapping agency, has released a new set of APIs and datasets under the banner of OS DataHub, which the organisation says will reduce barriers to access to some of the ...

AN eagle-eyed revolutionary digital map providing such details as post boxes and the lights on railway signals has been launched by Ordnance Survey. AN eagle-eyed revolutionary digital map providing ...

Southern Water is to use Ordnance Survey’s (OS) MasterMap following a company-wide upgrade of its location data and geographical information system (GIS). The company undertook an exercise to improve ...

Bluesky has launched its new online map shop with a 40 per cent saving on Ordnance Survey MasterMap Topography Layer. The Leicestershire aerial mapping company has developed the new online Map Shop to ...