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 ...

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 ...

The Ordnance Survey has opened up its map source code for online developers to use when creating Web 2.0 applications such as mashups. The OpenSpace project was announced last year, and developers ...

Famous for their comprehensive coverage and the extraordinary level of detail they deliver, Ordnance Survey maps have been used by hikers, bikers, boaters, anglers, amblers and outdoor explorers of ...

In 1918, at the conclusion of the First World War, Charles Close was knighted. The honour bestowed on the colonel was recognition for the work the Ordnance Survey, of which he had been director ...

A man looks at a giant Ordnance Survey map of Wales US-born neuroscientist John O'Keefe has jointly won the 2014 Nobel Prize for medicine for discovering the brain's navigation system. Is it any ...

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Simply sign up to the Technology sector myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The 224-year-old national agency that draws and sells the maps stuffed into the backpacks of ramblers ...

UK mapping agency Ordnance Survey has produced a map of Mars, marking the first time that it has mapped another planet. Well known for its paper road maps of the British Isles, OS has published a ...

UPDATE: Eurogamer's Ian Higton has been exploring the Ordnance Survey map for himself - watch his travels below as he takes in Stonehenge, London, Oxford and mispronounces everything around ...

The digital heritage resource focuses on the early years of ordnance surveying in Ireland, bringing together maps, texts, archaeological and toponymical material. Researchers at the University of ...