Maps help us to connect with our localities and many of us are familiar with maps of our local area. Historic maps in particular provide us with an important window onto our past and reveal how a ...

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 ...

In short, maps offer the freedom to get lost and then find your way again. This year the Ordnance Survey in Ireland is commemorating the bicentenary of its founding in 1824. Prior to partition ...

The Ordnance Survey of ... collisions in recent years in Ireland, where death and personal injury was involved, showing collision data on OSi maps at national, county and local levels by severity ...

A new website, which brings a unique 17th-century map ... Ireland, Britain and France. They have brought them together as a free online resource. By overlaying these maps onto Ordnance Survey ...

We all know something of the story of the Ordnance ... Survey in Ireland in the nineteenth century: perhaps we’ve remarked on a particularly unfortunate translation of a placename, or used a 6 ...

Cash will be made available for 11 digital humanities projects across Ireland and the UK. The research project, 'OS200: Digitally Re-Mapping Ireland’s Ordnance Survey Heritage’ hopes to revamp ...

Ordnance Survey told the BBC that the existing mapping satellites orbiting the Earth cannot provide enough high resolution detail for its maps. Its Astigan drone is a high-altitude pseudo satellite.

Increasingly, he said, people and businesses wanted more detail from online maps and wanted to get lots of local information about locations from one app or site. "Now you would struggle to find a ...