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. UK News Website of the Year 2024 Search Icon ...

Ordnance Survey map data will be freely available online to everybody from 2010, the Government has announced. The move will allow people to interpret public statistics about crime, health and ...

The accurate geological map is free to download. The UK's national mapping agency, Ordnance Survey (OS), has released an upgraded Minecraft map of Great Britain, adding detailed buildings, trees ...

ORIGINAL STORY: UK maps service Ordnance Survey has created an enormous version of Britain in Minecraft. The map is 86,000 sq miles across, BBC News reported, and contains more than 22 billion blocks.

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 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, the 232-year-old national mapping agency, has released its first ever official mapping app on Apple iOS devices, taking the iconic paper maps into the digital age.

A mapping tool that gives a detailed picture of local information in almost every corner of Great Britain has been released by Ordnance Survey (OS). The free data set brings together information ...

Ordnance Survey, the UK's mapping ... the free to use digital map data released under the Open Government ... adding a download API to OS OpenData and reducing royalties by up to 80 per cent for ...

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 ...

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 ...

A mapping tool that gives a detailed picture of local information in almost every corner of Great Britain has been released by Ordnance Survey (OS). The free data set brings together information ...