OS and Land Registry to share data centre
Ordnance Survey will use part of the Land Registry's data centre in Gloucester under a five year agreementOS will lease 219 square metres of serviced and managed space in the Land Registry's data...
View ArticleOrdnance Survey maps to go free online
PM to open access to 2,000 data sets in victory for Guardian's Free Our Data campaignThe government is to explore ways of making all Ordnance Survey maps freely available online from April, in a...
View ArticleOS and Land Registry open shared centre
The Land Registry and Ordnance Survey have opened their joint data centre, which they expect will save them up to £300m annuallyThe move, which was announced in October 2009, is claimed to be the first...
View ArticleHow free will Ordnance Survey's maps be? Your last chance to decide
Government consultation on OS mapping closes today - and has attracted withering comments from its own advisory body (updated)From next month, you should be able to get digital forms of Ordnance Survey...
View ArticleLGA Group urges mapping shake-up
The Local Government Association Group has called for an end to Ordnance Survey's control over a wide range of mapping dataIt said that ending the trading fund's "monopoly" would create a more...
View ArticleWhat will you do with Ordnance Survey's data?
From 1 April you'll be able to create your own maps - even paper ones. So, what sort will you make?What will you do come April 1, when Ordnance Survey goes free?You hadn't heard? You should have. In a...
View ArticleOrdnance Survey launches free downloadable maps
Move marks radical departure from previous OS financial model under which every piece of map data had to be paid forIt is the biggest shakeup in the Ordnance Survey's 260-year history: from tomorrow...
View ArticleOrdnance Survey OS opendata maps: what does it actually include?
The Ordnance Survey has opened up its map data for free after a long campaign. Find out what was releasedFor developers and data driven geographers Easter came early this year. They spent yesterday...
View ArticleOrdnance Survey maps are worth paying for | Martin Wainwright
A move to make OS maps available free online increases their convenience, but undervalues their quirky beautyBritain's Ordnance Survey is such a beautiful creation and the work of so many talented...
View ArticleMap of a Nation: A Biography of the Ordnance Survey by Rachel Hewitt - review
Ian Pindar on the creation of the Ordnance SurveyThe "cubist jigsaw of overlapping sheets" that is the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain is a national treasure, cherished by ramblers and...
View ArticleMap of a Nation by Rachel Hewitt – review
An absorbing history of the Ordnance Survey charts the many hurdles map-makers have had to overcomeFrom the hieroglyphs of Aztec Mexico to the red stripe of London's Central line, all maps are...
View ArticleIn praise of … mapping the nation | Editorial
Britain continues to excel every other country in the quality of its maps"Many excellent books have been written about Lakeland but the best literature of all for the walker has been published by the...
View ArticleWhy can't we map Edinburgh's green spaces? | Datablog
When Andy Wightman wanted to analyse his local greenspace he was knocked back by the authorities. He explains what happenedGreenspace Scotland is a charitable body that works to improve the quality of...
View ArticleMaude praises UK progress on open data but private sector sees work to do
Almost two years after Ordnance Survey data was made free, businesses are making profitable use of free data – but government still has to get ministries into line, say usersAn "open data" revolution...
View ArticleThe new cartographers: making mountains out of hills
Armed with surveyor-grade GPS equipment, amateurs are measuring English peaks designated as hills by the Ordnance Survey – and discovering that some of them are mountainsWhen hillwalkers Graham Jackson...
View ArticleOrdnance Survey maps to go free online
PM to open access to 2,000 data sets in victory for Guardian's Free Our Data campaignThe government is to explore ways of making all Ordnance Survey maps freely available online from April, in a...
View ArticleOS and Land Registry open shared centre
The Land Registry and Ordnance Survey have opened their joint data centre, which they expect will save them up to £300m annuallyThe move, which was announced in October 2009, is claimed to be the first...
View ArticleHow free will Ordnance Survey's maps be? Your last chance to decide
Government consultation on OS mapping closes today - and has attracted withering comments from its own advisory body (updated)From next month, you should be able to get digital forms of Ordnance Survey...
View ArticleLGA Group urges mapping shake-up
The Local Government Association Group has called for an end to Ordnance Survey's control over a wide range of mapping dataIt said that ending the trading fund's "monopoly" would create a more...
View ArticleWhat will you do with Ordnance Survey's data?
From 1 April you'll be able to create your own maps - even paper ones. So, what sort will you make?What will you do come April 1, when Ordnance Survey goes free?You hadn't heard? You should have. In a...
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