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...
Digimap for Schools Tops 1,000 Secondary School Subscribers
The Digimap for Schools service has reached a new milestone with 1,000 secondary schools now signed up. The latest achievement, for the popular mapping system, gives hundreds of thousands of pupils across Great Britain access to the latest Ordnance Survey (OS)...
UK Given Green Light to Become World Leader in Driverless Cars
New consortium led by Ordnance Survey secures Government funding to position the UK as a leader in connected and autonomous vehicles. A consortium of leading UK businesses has secured funding from Innovate UK to examine the data requirements needed to support...
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 Encourages People to Use Up-To-Date Maps with their Trade-in Scheme
Outdoors enthusiasts can build impressive collections of Ordnance Survey maps, but it often means they’re not using the most up-to-date maps to get outside and explore Britain. Up until 20 March, OS is offering avid explorers the chance to return their old maps and...
Ordnance Survey to Map Oman's World Class Geospatial Path
Ordnance Survey (OS) has signed a deal with the Sultanate of Oman Ministry of Defence to help the National Survey Authority (NSA) advance its position as Oman’s national mapping authority. This contribution to the development of NSA as a world-class national...
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...