The scale on a map is the ratio between real life sizes and how many times it has been shrunk to fit it on the map. Ordnance Survey maps, the most common type of map in the UK, come in several scales.

Ordnance Survey map data will be freely available online to everybody from ... Currently, the geographical data is only available free of charge to small scale developers. Opening it up is key to the ...

Soap’s most famous street has been put on the map after Ordnance Survey paid a visit to Weatherfield. The large scale map shows Coronation Street, complete with the fictional Underworld factory ...

Walter E. Elliot, Minister of Agriculture, stated that “no decision has been taken to introduce the metre as a unit of measurement in Ordnance Survey maps. The question is among those to be ...

We all know something of the story of the Ordnance Survey in Ireland ... This unlikely assembly came about because the survey was instructed to make a map at a scale of six inches to one mile.

Famous for their comprehensive coverage and the extraordinary level of detail they deliver, Ordnance Survey maps have been used ... cartography at 1:25,000 scale, right across Britain, directly ...

The large-scale map also includes house numbers, building names and character details. Ordnance Survey's Rob Andrews said: "This has been a great project and highlights Ordnance Survey's ...

British mapping agency Ordnance Survey (OS ... terms of things like the elevation and the scale and so on," said the OS cartographer behind the map, Chris Wesson. "But actually the physical ...

UK mapping agency Ordnance Survey has produced a map of Mars, marking the first time that it has ... using NASA’s open data of the red planet and has been plotted with a scale of 1:4,000,000, covering ...

You can now see the the Street in a new light, thanks to the recently produced large-scale ... Survey said: "This has been a great project and highlights Ordnance Survey’s commitment to ...

"Mars is a very different topography to the Earth to map," he said on the Ordnance Survey website. "The surface is very bumpy but at such a large scale I had vast expanses of land that appeared ...