In 1747, King George II commissioned a new map of the Scottish highlands, to help fight the Jacobite uprising. That exercise led to the creation of the Ordnance Survey, a project to map Great Britain ...

'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 the creation ...

OS mapping data to be released to developers... 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 ...

I was first taught to read a map when I was around 11 years old. My stepfather shook out the Ordnance Survey OL30 Explorer map (Yorkshire Dales – Northern & Central Area) over the kitchen table in our ...

The seaside town of Bournemouth has been recreated in extraordinary three-dimensional detail by Ordnance Survey, as part of a pilot scheme for a new generation of maps. The national agency used ...