Ordnance Survey, the body responsible for mapping Great Britain from top to toe, have recreated 86,000 square miles of it in Minecraft. The map was built in two weeks by intern Joseph Braybrook and OS ...

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 ...

Manish Jethwa, chief technology officer (CTO) at Ordnance Survey (OS), has a career-long passion for turning geographical data into useful insight. At the UK’s national mapping service, he’s leading ...

The Ordnance Survey have updated their already-massive official Minecraft map of Great Britain to include rail links, trees and local roads. The British mapping agency have doubled the map's scale - ...

Ordnance Survey, the UK’s national mapping service, has built up a vast trove of information in the years since it was founded, including data on urban planning, environmental monitoring, critical ...

One year on from its launch, the Ordnance Survey Data Hub has reported a 50% increase in like-for-like OS Open Data downloads. The hub was one of the first things to emerge from the Geospatial ...

Geospatial data is hot property, and with more than 200 years of experience, Ordnance Survey (OS) is a world leader in its collection, organisation and dissemination. In combination with other data, ...

Ordnance Survey has moved to all-flash storage to support its extensive use of virtualization, delivering improved stability and reduced performance issues with its main database. Due to the move, the ...

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The Ordnance Survey (OS) has launched a new dataset on tidelines around Great Britain's coast to help support the management of erosion, flood risk, and worsening climate impacts. The OS announced ...