What a wonderful thing this is. Stuffy old Ordnance Survey, best known for creating the maps you used to use before your phone did it much better, has created an absolutely vast Minecraft map of ...

In 1824, teams of surveyors began to map Ireland, making it the first place in the world to have detailed ordnance survey maps for an entire country. Now, 200 years later, these 6in to a mile maps, ...

The national mapping agency, Ordnance Survey, today launched a service allowing users to view its maps online - and then buy personalised maps centred anywhere in the UK. At £11.99 plus postage - the ...

I was first taught to read a map when I was around 11 years old. My stepfather shook out the Ordnance Survey OL30 Explorer map (Yorkshire Dales – Northern & Central Area) over the kitchen table in our ...

They’re the chaps who put Britain on the map — literally. But in an age of sat-navs and couch potatoes, will there still be a place for the unsung heroes of the Ordnance Survey? Nothing sneaks past ...

Simply sign up to the Technology sector myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The 224-year-old national agency that draws and sells the maps stuffed into the backpacks of ramblers ...

A 400-year-old map showing parts of York as they were in the early 17th Century has gone on public display. Samuel Parson's 1624 map of Dringhouses and the Knavesmire is one of the oldest in York ...

Ordnance Survey, the 232-year-old national mapping agency, has released its first ever official mapping app on Apple iOS devices, taking the iconic paper maps into the digital age. There are plenty of ...