Britain's Ordnance Survey is planning to roll out a new colour palette for its maps which enables those with colour blindness to use them. Colour blindness, or colour vision deficiency (CVD), affects ...

Project aims to help outdoor enthusiasts plan walks, cycles and hikes on and off beaten path Ordnance Survey, the UK’s national mapping agency, is eyeing an international expansion as it launches its ...

The British mapping agency Ordnance Survey has created a map of the Martian surface using precision NASA data — and it's beautiful. PHOTOS: Tour 'The Martian' Movie Set… On Mars As an avid hiker when ...

Following a closed alpha launch on 14 December, Ordnance Survey has completed testing of its OS OpenSpace API. It is now available for developers to mash up their own applications using the UK ...

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 ...

The Ordnance Survey (OS) on Thursday released much of its mapping data to the public for both personal and commercial reuse, in a move the government said is designed to spur business innovation and ...

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 ...

British mapping specialists Ordnance Survey have mapped out the surface of Mars so future travellers to the Red Planet don't end up in the same predicament as Matt Damon. The group created the map ...

British mapping agency Ordnance Survey (OS) has released an easy-to-read map of terrain from the planet Mars. Open data published by Nasa was used to make the map, which has been posted on the OS ...