Ordnance Survey, the UK's official map maker, is seeking a tech supplier to help it obtain and manage data from utilities companies for a project that aims to avoid damage to subterranean ...

The Ordnance Survey recruited a group of users -- some suffering from colour blindness and some not -- to test out the new maps. They were asked to use them as they would a regular map, ...

Ordnance Survey is belatedly embracing the digital age with an app to accompany its paper products. But in this age of satnavs and Google Maps, is it joining the party too late? Simon Usborne ...

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 owns 51% of Astigan, which is based in Bridgwater, Somerset. It operates from the same factory that once housed Facebook's Aquila internet drone project.

Despite these gripes, the Ordnance Survey’s progress continued unhindered until on January 1 1870, the last remaining sheet of the First Series of maps of England and Wales was finally published.

Although still popular with many people (enough to sell 2 million units a year) paper maps make up just 5% of Ordnance Survey’s business these days, whereas their app has over 5 million users.

Ordnance Survey rolls out a database of local nicknames to help emergency services find the right locations - so, would you know where the Eye of the Butt, the Dalek, and Slippery Bottom are?

Britain's Ordnance Survey (OS) has released its first map of Mars to examine the potential of the agency's advanced cartographic methods in creating detailed, easy to understand maps for planning ...