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 ...

One year on from its launch, the Ordnance Survey Data Hub has reported a 50% increase in like-for-like OS Open Data downloads. The hub was one of the first things to emerge from the Geospatial ...

OS mapping data to be released to developers... The Ordnance Survey (OS) is opening up some of its secret code to allow software developers to create Google Maps-style mash-ups. Dubbed OpenSpace, the ...

The Ordnance Survey will adjust the formula it uses to predict how long walks should take for the first time in more than 100 years because ramblers of today cannot keep up. The agency, which maps the ...

Ordnance Survey (OS) has opened up its Data Hub, launched in July 2020, to public sector organisations. OS said in a press statement that, as part of the Geospatial Commission’s Public Sector ...

Ordnance Survey has teamed with Chris Boardman MBE to launch the OS Ride App, which will guide cyclists to the Yorkshire routes used for the Tour de France, among other rides. Now available to ...

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 ...

'I am told there are people who do not care for maps,” Robert Louis Stevenson wrote in 1894. “And I find it hard to believe.” Stevenson’s fascination with charts, surveys and maps led to the creation ...

The Munro Society used GPS to make fresh measurements of Beinn a'Chlaidheimh A row over access to radio signals in the US could have implications for the future of GPS use in the UK, according to ...

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 ...