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), affects ...

Project aims to help outdoor enthusiasts plan walks, cycles and hikes on and off beaten path Ordnance Survey, the UK’s national mapping agency, is eyeing an international expansion as it launches its ...

Following a closed alpha launch on 14 December, Ordnance Survey has completed testing of its OS OpenSpace API. It is now available for developers to mash up their own applications using the UK ...

Ordnance Survey, the 232-year-old national mapping agency, has released its first ever official mapping app on Apple iOS devices, taking the iconic paper maps into the digital age. There are plenty of ...

They’re the chaps who put Britain on the map — literally. But in an age of sat-navs and couch potatoes, will there still be a place for the unsung heroes of the Ordnance Survey? Nothing sneaks past ...

Mapping organisation Ordnance Survey plans to launch a solar-powered drone to capture higher quality images of the Earth. Its Astigan craft will fly higher than commercial airliners at 67,000 ft ...

When the maps went back on sale last month, more then 800 were sold in just over 24 hours, far exceeding OS’s expectations. Each sheet in the Road series is expected to average about 10,000 sales per ...

British mapping specialists Ordnance Survey have mapped out the surface of Mars so future travellers to the Red Planet don't end up in the same predicament as Matt Damon. The group created the map ...

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You may have used them to help navigate on a long car journey or during an adventurous walk in the countryside. But now the reassuringly timeless Ordnance Survey (OS) maps are getting a modern ...