Contractors looking for unexploded ordnance earlier found two suspected World War-II era bombs on Miyakojima, a popular ...

A tender with a value that could reach around £25m to produce Ordnance Survey (OS) paper maps has gone live. The mapping agency, which is responsible for the surveying, production, maintenance and ...

The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology has appointed Ordnance Survey to run the National Underground Asset ...

The government is transferring responsibility for operating the National Underground Asset Register to Ordnance Survey.

Chances are, if you're a regular walker, you will stride out safe in the knowledge that an Ordnance Survey map secreted about your person means you'll know exactly where and when you got lost.

Mapping organisation Ordnance Survey plans to launch a solar-powered drone to capture higher quality images of the Earth. Its Astigan craft will fly higher than commercial airliners at 67,000 ft ...

How to find statues of the beloved bear in London - Statues of the nation’s favourite marmalade-lover have been erected ...

Ordnance Survey, the UK's mapping agency, has released a new set of APIs and datasets under the banner of OS DataHub, which the organisation says will reduce barriers to access to some of the ...

Large-scale maps - 1:1,250, 1:2,500 and 1:10,000. Features appear larger on the map. This may be used for individual towns and cities. Small-scale - 1:25,000, 1: ...

The novelist’s creative life was woven from a childhood in northern England’s mythic landscape.

Fans of all ages have been taking a seat next to Paddington as a statue of the marmalade loving bear was unveiled in Westport ...