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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Areas with some of the highest sunshine levels in the country have been found to have just 1-3 per cent of rooves where solar ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...