All parts of the public sector in Great Britain have free access to a wide range of services from the government-owned mapping agency Ordnance Survey (OS), through the Public Sector Mapping Agreement ...

Mapping agency Ordnance Survey (OS) has launched a service offering free and unrestricted access to most of its map data. After months of public consultation, OS OpenData was launched on 1 April by ...

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Ordnance Survey (OS) has released a free interactive digital map and dataset showing Great Britain’s green space areas. OS Greenspace map Green space is defined as “an area of grass, trees, or other ...

Ordnance Survey mapping data should be free from April 2010. Ordnance Survey map data will be freely available online to everybody from 2010, the Government has announced. The move will allow people ...

Ordnance Survey has undergone its biggest shake-up in its 260-year history as digital versions of its maps have been made available to download for free. 01 April 2010 • 7:30am Companies would be able ...

Alfred Wainwright's famed coast to coast walk may soon be added to official Ordnance Survey (OS) paper maps for the first time. Author Wainwright devised the 197-mile (318km) walk, from St Bees Head ...

Writing in The Guardian, home of the Free Our Data campaign, Michael Cross reports that the Ordnance Survey has finally agreed to allow nonprofit organisations to display their own data on its maps ...