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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ordnance Survey (OS) has released a free interactive digital map and dataset showing Great Britain’s green space areas. OS Greenspace map Green space is defined as “an area of grass, trees, or other ...

The Ordnance Survey (OS) is opening up some of its secret code to allow software developers to create Google Maps-style mash-ups. Dubbed OpenSpace, the project will initially launch as a closed ...

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 ...

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 ...