The Ordnance Survey’s revenues from its OS Maps app rose by 13pc to £9.5m in the year to April, according to the service’s annual report. By contrast, sales of its paper maps fell by 5pc to ...

OS sold 1.73 million paper maps in the 2017/18 financial year, up 7 per cent on the same period last year, with studies of Snowdon the most popular, followed by the south-east Lakes and the Peak ...

In 2009, Ordnance Survey killed off its OS Road maps, a series of eight glovebox-friendly, 1:250,000-scale maps designed to help motorists plot a course around Britain.

Paper maps are used by millions of outdoor enthusiasts every year enabling people to explore and enjoy Great Britain. Our paper products remain an important part of Ordnance Survey with nearly 2 ...

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The British mapping agency Ordnance Survey has created a map of the Martian surface using precision NASA data — and it's beautiful.

Latest figures from the OS show that paper map sales accounted for just seven per cent of its £141.9 million turnover last year, as the numbers sold slipped below two million for the first time ...

There have been a number of articles in the media this weekend reporting that Ordnance Survey is to end its policy of routinely producing maps that cover the whole country. This is simply not true ...

Nick Giles OBE, MD of Leisure for Ordnance Survey, which commissioned the research ahead of National Map Reading Week (July 31st - August 6th), said: “Some people feel map reading is a forgotten ...

OS has suggested the paper versions of its maps are in decline as users replace them with its smartphone application - Sam Benard. For much of its 233-year history, the Ordnance Survey has been ...