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Over 4000 geologic quadrangle maps and publications are now available online in PDF format. If you know the name of the quadrangle you are interested in, you may locate PDF files using the map series ...
This is where Ordnance Survey guidebooks come in, providing fantastic routes to help you make the most of your seasonal walks. Just in time for the warmer weather, Ordnance Survey is releasing a ...
Maps help us to connect with our localities and many of us are familiar with maps of our local area. Historic maps in particular provide us with an important window onto our past and reveal how a ...
A union has criticised plans to make almost 100 redundancies at mapping service Ordnance Survey. Prospect said laying off 95 skilled staff was “short sighted” and counter to the Government’s ...
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 ...
In 1824, teams of surveyors began to map Ireland, making it the first place in the world to have detailed ordnance survey maps for ... of the public will use the online resource to trace old ...
Thanks to a new digital heritage resource created by researchers at the University of Limerick, Ordnance Survey (OS) maps from between 1824 and 1842 are now available online. The OS maps completed ...
The OS200-Digitally Re-mapping Ireland’s Ordnance Survey Heritage project has compiled ... freely accessible online resource for academic and public use. “By reconnecting digitally, the ...
Each of our selection has a different feature to enhance your walks, from social functions that involve your friends to maps that encourage exploration. 1. MapMyWalk GPS for iPhone, Android or Windows ...
THE new edition of the one-inch and quarter-inch Ordnance Survey maps is described, with specimen sheets, by Lt,-Col. W. J. Johnston in the Geographical Journal for March (vol. lv., No. 3).
I’m at Teletubby Hill’: Ordnance Survey lets 999 workers add local nicknames to maps New online tool allows emergency services to apply vernacular to local maps so that they can reach call ...