Ordnance Survey (OS) is the UK’s national mapping agency. It provides the most accurate and up-to-date geographic data. For more than 200 years, its maps featured symbols for the most commonly ...

Although still popular with many people (enough to sell 2 million units a year) paper maps make up just 5% of Ordnance Survey’s business these days, whereas their app has over 5 million users.

Map symbols can include letters, coloured areas, pictures or lines. These symbols can be used to show the location of different features such as roads, viewpoints, bus stations, train stations ...

Symbols added recently by OS to its revised OS Tour Map include solar farms, art galleries, kite surfing and public toilets.

Ordnance Survey joins the digital age with an app to take walkers from A-Z Ordnance Survey is belatedly embracing the digital age with an app to accompany its paper products.

Imagine pootling down the B3046 out of New Alresford, looking to your left across a bit of English scenery. Those navigating using one of the more functional modern online maps will see nothing marked ...

In 2015, OS ran a competition for the public to design new symbols, which included electric car charging points. But these have not yet been implemented due to the market ‘changing at a ...

Ordnance Survey has revealed the top four new symbols people would most like to see added to their maps. Headquartered in Southampton, the mapping agency found across more than 2,400 responses that ...

Ordnance Survey (OS) is the UK ’s national mapping agency. It provides the most accurate and up-to-date geographic data. From the Government to businesses across the nation, including Google and ...

Ordnance Survey (OS) is the UK’s national mapping agency. It provides the most accurate and up-to-date geographic data. From the Government to businesses across the nation, including Google and ...