Hikers using a famous walk across Dartmoor have been following the wrong route for almost 140 years, an author and local historian says. Nick Pannell said he was lobbying Ordnance Survey (OS) to ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

British mapping company Ordnance Survey has re-created the entirety of Great Britain in Minecraft using real-world data. Minecraft players have created some pretty danged amazing stuff in the game.

The OS200-Digitally Re-mapping Ireland’s Ordnance Survey Heritage project has compiled historic maps, texts, archaeological and toponymical material, including local customs, place names and ...

The British mapping agency Ordnance Survey has created a map of the Martian surface using precision NASA data — and it's beautiful. PHOTOS: Tour 'The Martian' Movie Set… On Mars As an avid ...