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Ordnance Survey opens up maps to developers
News Following a closed alpha launch on 14 December, Ordnance Survey has completed testing of its OS OpenSpace API. In line with the government's current aim to make public-sector information more accessible, OS OpenSpace is intended to open the door to...
[February 1, 2008, 14:33]
Ordnance Survey opens map source code
News The Ordnance Survey has opened up its map source code for online developers to use when creating Web 2.0 applications such as mashups. People and organisations will register for a free feed of Ordnance Survey (OS) data with which they can...
[December 17, 2007, 8:13]
Ordnance Survey challenges Google
News Ordnance Survey, the UK's national mapping agency, is opening up some of its secret code to allow software developers to create Google Maps-style mashups. Dubbed OpenSpace, the project will initially launch as a closed beta test with up to 12...
[November 3, 2006, 9:19]
Ordnance Survey plans GPS improvements
News The Ordnance Survey is looking for suppliers involved in geographic information IT to develop global positioning services to help improve the accuracy of data from orbiting satellites. The network, known as OS Net, currently helps Ordnance Survey...
[October 27, 2005, 16:25]
Ordnance Survey: Putting GIS on the map
News Geographical data finds its way into some aspect of pretty much every company in the UK: Ordnance Survey, which today continues the job it started when it was the board of Ordnance -- the defence ministry of the day -- in 1791, believes that some...
[October 23, 2003, 17:30]
Computacenter Case Study: Ordnance Survey
White Papers Ordnance Survey's investment in its network became a priority when its legacy infrastructure began to struggle with the growing level of traffic created by large digital mapping files. To overcome these problems, Ordnance Survey embarked on an...
[August 10, 2006, 0:00]
Ordnance Survey: Putting GIS on the map
Talkback Not sure if the last guy to comment read the first page of this article where is says that the UK has one of the most comprehensive mappings of any country. It's unfortunate rule in life that good things cost good money.
[March 2, 2005, 13:53]
Ordnance Survey: Putting GIS on the map
Talkback If someone wanted to build an alternative to the M$ Corps ripoff Autoroute on Linux based Platform we are unable to because of the excessive costs nailed on us by the Ordinacne Survey and Government it is an ABSOLUTE TOTAL FARCE and needs to be...
[October 24, 2004, 8:00]
Open source project aims to map the world
News Volunteer "citizen cartographers" are aiming to take on the likes of Google Maps and Ordnance Survey by creating a free open source wiki-style map of the planet. The Ordnance Survey, which derives much of its revenue from selling mapping data to...
[November 14, 2006, 7:52]
My 999 call mashup suggestion
Blog Me: “We’re on top of the North Downs, near Ranmore Common Road, close to the Boy Scout hut marked on Ordnance Survey map 123etc… and yes, he can breathe and is standing and lucid.lady: “Oh dear love, is that near the A24?
[September 15, 2008, 9:36]
Berners-Lee: Intelligent Web requires co-operation
News Speaking at Ordnance Survey's Terra Future conference in Southampton on Tuesday, Sir Tim Berners-Lee said all that was needed to build the Semantic Web was for existing databases to be exposed in standard formats.
[September 19, 2006, 14:50]
Why Google Earth means business
News says Gavin Lewis, head of commercial markets for Ordnance Survey, the UK's national mapping agency. A popular practical application of GIS is satellite navigation — drivers using GPS-assisted devices to get their directions — but Ordnance Survey's...
[September 18, 2006, 14:20]
The battle for digital mapping starts
Blog Comment Good article but you have the relationship between Ordnance Survey and Tele Atlas the wrong way round. As the national mapping agency, Ordnance Survey collects, maintains and distributes the underlying road network data of Great Britain so it is a...
[November 8, 2007, 10:22]
Nomad to make complaining easier
News The Nottingham Online Maps and Data (Nomad) service was developed by the council, Ordnance Survey and IT firm ESRI. Nomad draws on Ordnance Survey's MasterMap dataset. People living in Nottingham will be able to report faulty street lighting...
[November 19, 2004, 11:30]
Finding Wi-Fi hot spots just got easier
News ZDNet UK’s Wi-Fi hot spot map was built in conjunction with Ordnance Survey, and is based on the agency's MasterMap of Great Britain -- a terabyte spatial database of every feature across the country.
[October 30, 2003, 13:40]
Time for the Ministry of Information?
Talkback We already pay through the nose for Ordnance Survey data (OS now submitting a healthy dividend to Gord) which hampers a great many activities (including Local Authorites). A source of revenue? Ah, a Tax on information!
[August 10, 2005, 12:26]
OpenSpace expands free mapping service
News OS OpenSpace, which enables users to build mash-ups of Ordnance Survey maps free of charge, was opened to companies, charities and other organisations on Tuesday. Each organisation is limited to 200 unique users each day.
[May 13, 2009, 13:01]
Time to take your tablet
Leader While the tablet has found a home in niche verticals — Ordnance Survey has some 400 surveyors using them to map the land — it has so far failed to catch on as a panacea for general-purpose tasks. The news this week that Dell has decided to enter...
[May 18, 2007, 17:22]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The cause of this unusual activity was Top Band DFing, a cross between orienteering and amateur radio: two transmitting stations hide out somewhere within the area of a standard Ordnance Survey map, and 20 oddballs armed with special radios try...
[July 11, 2003, 15:06]
Navman GPS 3300 Terrain review
Reviews The Ordnance Survey (www.ordsvy.gov.uk) is a good starting point for the average off-roader in the UK. What’s in the box? The full GPS 3300 Terrain bundle includes Navman’s Smart Explorer software for working with maps, a car charger and vehicle...
[September 29, 2003, 16:05]
