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), affects ...

Nigel Brown has built up a collection of nearly 2,000 Ordnance Survey maps over 60 years - but he admits he will probably still buy some more. As a 10-year-old, he and a group of friends got hold of ...

Artificial intelligence and camera software is being trialled to build a more detailed map of the UK’s road network. Mapping agency Ordnance Survey has launched trials with Mobileye, an Intel-owned ...

Ordnance Survey (OS) was a 50-year-old company when a fire swept through its first headquarters at the Tower of London in 1841 — the crown jewels saved ahead of stored paper maps. The national mapping ...

All parts of the public sector in Great Britain have free access to a wide range of services from the government-owned mapping agency Ordnance Survey (OS), through the Public Sector Mapping Agreement ...

Reflecting worries that the French might invade, the first OS maps cover the mouth of the river Thames. This is the naval route to London and a highly vulnerable part of the country. The sheets that ...

THE initiation of an entirely new ordnance map series on a scale of 1: 25,000, or about 2 ½ inches to the mile, was one of the chief recommendations of a departmental committee set up in 1935. It was ...