ordnance survey
RSS ordnance surveySort by: Relevance | Date
Is open source software finding a home in Whitehall?
News Field predicted the areas of the public sector where open source could flourish was within organisations that contained the greatest amount of in-house technical expertise, such as the BBC, the Met Office and Ordnance... [29 Sep 2009]
Ordnance Survey Puts Records Management on the Map With HP TRIM Software
White Paper Ordnance Survey, Great Britain's national mapping agency provides the most accurate and up-to-date geographic data that is relied on by government and businesses. Ordnance... [22 Jun 2009]
Data Visualization Within Urban Models
White Paper This paper presents an algorithm for generating consistent 3D models from a combination of data sources, including Ordnance Survey ground plans, aerial photography and laser height data. Models of urban... [14 Oct 2008]
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... [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,... [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... [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... [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... [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... [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... [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... [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... [11 Oct 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... [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... [03 Apr 2006]
