Thursday, April 25th, 2013
For the first time, national mapping authority Ordnance Survey is running a programme for paid summer internships. Great Britain’s national mapping authority collects, maintains and distributes the most accurate and up-to-date digital mapping of the whole country.
Saturday, April 6th, 2013
Following its successful visits to Bath, Oxford and Chatham the popular exhibition, Britain from the Air, has headed north to Edinburgh. The outdoor exhibition arrived in the Scottish capital on 22 March 2013, and was officially opened by broadcaster and former Royal Geographical Society President, Michael Palin, on 4 April 2013.
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013
Public sector organisations in Scotland will continue to have access to Ordnance Survey mapping data following an agreement between the Scottish Government and Ordnance Survey to renew the One Scotland Mapping Agreement (OSMA).
Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013
Ordnance Survey’s flagship, and world renowned dataset, OS MasterMap, has received an upgrade with the launch of a new layer, OS MasterMap Sites Layer. The new product will work alongside the existing layers providing users with an intelligent dataset to underpin decision making and data analytics.
Monday, March 25th, 2013
A recent hack event, supported by Ordnance Survey’s GeoVation team, generated a number of innovative demos showcasing how technology can support greener business, paving the way for other budding innovators and entrepreneurs to submit their ideas to the latest GeoVation Challenge.
Tuesday, March 12th, 2013
Over the last couple of years Ordnance Survey has been working on a collaborative project with UK Location Programme and Cabinet Office to implement map-based tools, making it easier for users to search and preview public location datasets available on data.gov.uk. The project was completed to further enable the publication of location datasets in support
Tuesday, March 12th, 2013
Budding innovators and entrepreneurs are being asked to contribute ideas that could help businesses improve their environmental performance, with the opportunity to win a slice of a £100,000 development prize fund. The GeoVation Challenge, run by mapping agency Ordnance Survey, is seeking ideas on how the use of geographic data can help British business improve
Monday, March 11th, 2013
The Cambridge Conference – long established as the premier meeting of senior executives from national mapping and cadastral authorities around the world – will take place from 21–24 July 2013, in Churchill College, Cambridge, Great Britain. This will be followed by the Third Session of the United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM3), which will
Tuesday, February 5th, 2013
Ordnance Survey has developed and released a full set of style sheets for all its vector products, including OS MasterMap Topography Layer and OS VectorMap Local. The new style sheets will help customers and partners reduce the time and resource needed to properly apply cartographic styling for web and GIS visualisation. Made available under an
Thursday, January 31st, 2013
Ordnance Survey is running a graduate recruitment scheme for the second year, looking for a new generation to lead the way on developing innovative technologies for digital data.
