Feature Britain's Ordnance Survey (OS), founded in 1791, is interloping in the digital age. Minecraft, AR gaming, and EV ...

Profit at Ordnance Survey has slipped despite its revenue jumping to almost £200m during the historic company's latest ...

Ordnance Survey, the UK’s mapping agency, originated in 1747 as a military project by the Crown, mapping the bogs of the ...

The company said its revenue growth was boosted by a growing demand for its data, particularly in the financial services ...

Ordnance Survey has taken full control of key print supplier Dennis Maps, after trustees of the Felix Dennis Estate decided ...

The Ordnance Survey benchmarks chiselled into buildings, walls and bridges were originally used to measure height across ...

Ordnance Survey is belatedly embracing the digital age with an app to accompany its paper products. But in this age of satnavs and Google Maps, is it joining the party too late?

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 ...

Hikers using a famous walk across Dartmoor have been following the wrong route for almost 140 years, an author and local ...

And when the Ordnance Survey published its first map, of Kent, on January 1 1801 – a year and a day into a new century – it received a rapturous response. One Austrian general pronounced it ...

Thankfully, Ordnance Survey has now added thousands of unofficial names for locations to a new database for emergency services. And with over 9,500 different names on the list, rescue teams will ...