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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Founded in 1791, Ordnance Survey was originally tasked with creating maps of the British Isles for the country's armed forces to help with defense in the event of invasion. Over the last 225 years ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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