OS Committed to European Smart City Standards

Ordnance Survey is to create a Smart City standards-based technologies business framework for the European Union’s ESPRESSO project. ESPRESSO is being led by the Open Geospatial Consortium, and OS, working closely with key European bodies, will develop a strategic...

OS Maps Out of this World

607 paper maps, the most detailed digital data picture of Great Britain, and now one red planet Using NASA open data, Ordnance Survey has created a one-off paper and digital map of the Martian landscape. OS, whose database of Great Britain has up to 500 million...

Ordnance Survey reveals its #GetOutside champions

The Ordnance Survey (OS) #GetOutside champions were unveiled at a London event where they were joined by OS ambassadors, the wildlife presenter and naturalist Steve Backshall, endurance adventurer Sean Conway and mountaineer and Everest climber Bonita Norris. The...

Ordnance Survey Acquire Shareholding in Dennis Maps

Ordnance Survey (OS) and Dennis Maps have signed an agreement for Britain’s mapping agency to acquire a 25% The new partnership builds on the relationship between the two organisations which commenced in 2010 when OS outsourced the printing of its national series...

Finding the Right Address: a Matter of Life or Death

December 9, 2015 — An Ordnance Survey software pilot has helped save lives, so say the Community First Responders (CFRs ) who used it. The prototype mobile web app was used by a sample of CFRs from across the country over an eight week period. During this time the...

Ordnance Survey Ireland Launches GeoHive

November 20, 2015 — GeoHive, a free platform which enables people to combine and layer location-based information from a range of public sector bodies has today been launched by Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Alex White TD. An...

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