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Sat-nav tackles congested HGV 'rat runs'
News Digital road routing information from the Ordnance Survey (OS) is being used by sat-nav mapping company Tele Atlas on its map database to help prevent lorries getting stuck down small roads and villages. [21 Dec 2007]
Ordnance Survey opens up mapping code
News The Ordnance Survey (OS) has opened up its map source code for online developers to use when creating web 2.0 applications such as mash-ups. The OpenSpace project was announced last year and developers will be able to use it from January 2008. [14 Dec 2007]
Ordnance Survey Adopts Grid Computing for Virtually Unlimited Scalability
White Paper Since 2001, Ordnance Survey has been engaged in improving the currency and accuracy of its authoritative and widely used digital mapping of Great Britain, OS MasterMap. To achieve this goal, Ordnance Survey developed Mercury 2, a custom-written map... [06 Nov 2007]
Photos: Cambridge innovation day abuzz with fresh tech
Photo This phone is displaying a GPS-based technology that takes travel information, from sources such as AA Publishing and Ordnance Survey maps, and tells users where they are on a map and provides other location-based information. [07 Sep 2007]
Photos: High tech vans map out Europe
Photo Examples include Deutsche Post, which supplies house number information, and databases belonging to Ordnance Survey and National Land Survey. The Dutch company is one of two major European mapping organisations - the other being Navteq - that... [21 May 2007]
Ordnance Survey CTO resigns
News Ordnance Survey's chief technology officer Ed Parsons has resigned to pursue "new challenges" in the geographic information industry. Parsons joined OS in 2001 to develop the organisation's IT strategy and lead research labs, and was instrumental... [11 Jan 2007]
Photos: "Citizen cartographers" mapping the planet
Photo OpenStreetMap started two years ago and is aiming to take on the likes of Google Maps and Ordnance Survey (OS) by creating a free open source wiki-style map of the planet. Enough data has now been gathered that some of the maps are starting to get... [13 Nov 2006]
Open source rival takes on Google Maps
News Volunteer "citizen cartographers" are aiming to take on the likes of Google Maps and Ordnance Survey by creating a free open source wiki-style map of the planet. The Ordnance Survey, which derives much of its revenue from selling mapping data to... [13 Nov 2006]
Ordnance Survey mash-up takes on Google Maps
News The Ordnance Survey (OS) is opening up some of its secret code to allow software developers to create Google Maps-style mash-ups. Dubbed OpenSpace, the project will initially launch as a closed beta test with up to 12 volunteers and will run for... [02 Nov 2006]
Ordnance Survey saves big with storage upgrade
News Ordnance Survey is seeing significant savings and productivity improvements from upgrading its data storage. The greater capacity provided by the new system also helps Ordnance Survey fulfil its remit to store historical data for up to half a century. [11 Oct 2006]
Computacenter Case Study: Ordnance Survey
White Paper Ordnance Survey's investment in its network became a priority when its legacy infrastructure began to struggle with the growing level of traffic created by large digital mapping files. To overcome these problems, Ordnance Survey embarked on an... [10 Aug 2006]
Speed trial aims to keep London's drivers legal
News The spokesman added: "We are working with Ordnance Survey to come up with a digital speed-limit map. Vehicles in London could soon be fitted with technology that will automatically slow them down if they break the speed limit. [24 May 2006]
Police test road crash GPS scheme
News Via handheld PCs, police will get access to Ordnance Survey data to pinpoint accident location along with any other information that they need. Road accidents can take as long as six hours to investigate, during which whole roads or motorway lanes... [03 Apr 2006]
Satellite tech to map cables under UK roads in 3D
News The Department of Trade and Industry is providing £900,000 of funding with the remainder coming from project partners including BT, National Grid Transco, Ordnance Survey, Thames Water and Transport for London. [22 Mar 2006]
Local authorities sign up for digital mapping
News Three companies are working on the project: Ordnance Survey (for national coverage of breadth), Intermap (for height) and Intelligent Addressing (for maintaining NLPG data). Councils throughout the UK have signed up for a digital mapping scheme... [07 Sep 2005]
