Tuesday, July 11th, 2017
A Government initiative to make it easier for people to locate and access greenspaces has launched today with the release of a new database and interactive digital map identifying accessible recreational and leisure greenspace in Great Britain. Delivered by Ordnance Survey (OS), the free map contains data from OS and other sources, and can be used immediately,
Wednesday, June 28th, 2017
Ordnance Survey (OS) is pleased to announce the appointment of Caroline Bellamy, as its new Chief Data Officer. Caroline is a highly-experienced leader with 25 years’ Data and Insight experience, working in multiple sectors at senior levels. Caroline joins OS from Vodafone where she’d been working since 2008 in various leadership roles in the UK
Tuesday, June 27th, 2017
Ordnance Survey will lead a group of businesses, academics, students and members of the public in a week-long challenge to identify ways of improving the environment. The focus on how businesses can contribute towards greener communities comes as part of Northumbrian Water Group’s (NWG) Innovation Festival, which will bring together some of the world’s leading businesses
Tuesday, April 4th, 2017
Ordnance Survey (OS) has signed an agreement with the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), negotiated by its technology transfer arm, Ploughshare Innovations, to allow it to licence various forms of cutting edge aerial mapping technology. The main technologies covered by the licence will enable the rapid processing, classification, analysis and extraction of geographic content
Monday, April 3rd, 2017
Timed for the start of the GetOutside season, and offering stunning views of the country, Aerial 3D has been purposely designed to help outdoor enthusiasts stay safe, view routes as never before and discover new places to visit. Aerial 3D image of Cheddar Gorge in Somerset Ordnance Survey’s (OS) award-winning app contains over 750,000 publicly shared
Tuesday, March 14th, 2017
Cadcorp has launched a new Network Manager application in the latest service release of Cadcorp SIS 8.0. The application loads OS MasterMap Highways Network data into a structured topological network that includes roads, paths, and asset management information. This complements the existing support for OS ITN data. Full support for the update to OS MasterMap
Tuesday, March 14th, 2017
The Geovation Innovators will also be granted access to Trimble’s subscription-based on-demand positioning services, which enable the receivers to obtain high-accuracy positioning by utilizing data from OS’s OSNet for the necessary corrections. It is hoped entrepreneurial imagination aligned with Trimble’s precision will increase the future value and flexibility of geospatial information. Head of Geovation, Alex
Monday, January 30th, 2017
LONDON, January 30, 2017 – Ordnance Survey International and Deimos Space UK are to work with the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre in Dubai to help the United Arab Emirates (UAE) improve how it plans and manages its natural resources and infrastructure. Ordnance Survey International will establish a strategy for the development of a single
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2017
In the UK, systems integrators, developers and administrators of web mapping applications are often required to provide a locational context for their business data against a backdrop of Ordnance Survey (OS) map data. They want to do this as simply as possible and without having to become involved in data manipulation and map styling.
Wednesday, December 14th, 2016
Bournemouth’s Christmas tree, lights and decorations have been included by Ordnance Survey (OS) in the intelligence of its ground breaking planning and mapping tool that will be instrumental to the national rollout of 5G technology – the next generation of wireless communications needed to bring Internet-connected devices into everyday life. The tool, which is being created
