Britain's Ordnance Survey is planning to roll out a new colour palette for its maps which enables those with colour blindness to use them. Colour blindness, or colour vision deficiency (CVD), affects ...

With the national mapping agency revamping the symbols on walking maps, put your rambling knowledge to the test with our interactive quiz Chris Moss is a writer, editor and hotel expert on the UK, ...

From next month, you should be able to get digital forms of Ordnance Survey (OS) maps for free - free as in beer, and free as in speech - under a new initiative announced last November by the prime ...

I was first taught to read a map when I was around 11 years old. My stepfather shook out the Ordnance Survey OL30 Explorer map (Yorkshire Dales – Northern & Central Area) over the kitchen table in our ...

In 1824, teams of surveyors began to map Ireland, making it the first place in the world to have detailed ordnance survey maps for an entire country. Now, 200 years later, these 6in to a mile maps, ...

Famous for their comprehensive coverage and the extraordinary level of detail they deliver, Ordnance Survey maps have been used by hikers, bikers, boaters, anglers, amblers and outdoor explorers of ...

A man looks at a giant Ordnance Survey map of Wales US-born neuroscientist John O'Keefe has jointly won the 2014 Nobel Prize for medicine for discovering the brain's navigation system. Is it any ...

Maps have been created since ancient times but often left much to be desired in terms of scale and accuracy. And if you're planning a military campaign, scale and accuracy could make the difference ...