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

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 ...

Ordnance Survey is belatedly embracing the digital age with an app to accompany its paper products. But in this age of satnavs and Google Maps, is it joining the party too late?

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 ...

A new cycling guidebook has been released this summer full of safe routes for families to enjoy away from heavy traffic.

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 ...

Ordnance Survey owns 51% of Astigan, which is based in Bridgwater, Somerset. It operates from the same factory that once housed Facebook's Aquila internet drone project.

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 ...

Although still popular with many people (enough to sell 2 million units a year) paper maps make up just 5% of Ordnance Survey’s business these days, whereas their app has over 5 million users.