To this end, Britain's Ordnance Survey (OS) has released its first map of another planet. Created in the distinct OS style, the one-off chart's purpose is to examine the potential of the agency's ...

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 ...

British mapping agency Ordnance Survey (OS) has released an easy-to-read map of terrain from the planet Mars. Open data published by Nasa was used to make the map, which has been posted on the OS ...

Ordnance Survey mapping data should be free from April 2010. Ordnance Survey map data will be freely available online to everybody from 2010, the Government has announced. The move will allow people ...

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 ...

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 ...

For more than 200 years, its maps featured symbols for the most commonly sought spots including battle sites and churches. However, unlike the Ordnance Survey maps’ symbology, what people for on a map ...

'I am told there are people who do not care for maps,” Robert Louis Stevenson wrote in 1894. “And I find it hard to believe.” Stevenson’s fascination with charts, surveys and maps led to ...

Ordnance Survey, which is known for paper maps but has undergone a digital transformation in recent years, made the biggest update to its National Geographic Database this week since 2020.

Is it any surprise then that he loves Ordnance Survey maps, writes Luke Jones. O'Keefe came to the UK from the US in the late 1960s. He was supposed to stay for only two years as part of post ...

Luckily, Ordnance Survey are on the case, and have just released their first map of the surface of Mars. The map, which has been published on Flickr, was created using open data from Nasa ...

British mapping agency Ordnance Survey (OS) has released an easy-to-read map of terrain from the planet Mars. Open data published by Nasa was used to make the map, which has been posted on the OS ...