Ordnance Survey has undergone its biggest shake-up in its 260-year history as digital versions of its maps have been made available to download for free. 01 April 2010 • 7:30am Companies would ...

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 ...

A complete map ... Anyone can download it for free, although they will need a copy of Minecraft, 5GB of free HDD space and 4GB of RAM. Once loaded users appear next to the Ordnance Survey offices.

The free data set brings together information ... Increasingly, he said, people and businesses wanted more detail from online maps and wanted to get lots of local information about locations ...

Ordnance Survey ... per month of free access to other resources including the 1:25 000 leisure mapping and road network datasets. OS OpenData, the free to use digital map data released under ...

Ordnance Survey feels it is a "trusted" source for people navigating around Britain. The OS MapFinder app on iOS devices is aimed mainly at "outdoor enthusiasts", offering a free overview map for ...

For much of its 233-year history, the Ordnance Survey has been synonymous ... to the organisation’s maps. It now has 6m paying users, despite the availability of free apps such as Google and ...

Britain's Ordnance Survey is planning to roll out a new colour palette for its maps which enables those with colour blindness to use them. Colour blindness, or colour vision deficiency (CVD ...

Ordnance Survey's Scott Sinclair added, "As an organisation, we are constantly updating our maps of Great Britain, mak-ing changes to the landscape on a daily basis. "Over a period of time ...

UPDATE: Eurogamer's Ian Higton has been exploring the Ordnance Survey map for himself - watch his travels below as he takes in Stonehenge, London, Oxford and mispronounces everything around ...

The UK's national mapping agency, Ordnance Survey ... This new 1GB map, like last year's original, will be offered to Minecraft users to download free-of-charge. "I've attempted to re-create ...