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  Ordnance Survey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ordnance Survey (OS) is an executive agency of the United Kingdom government.
It was not until 1790 that the Board of Ordnance (the predecessor of the Ministry of Defence) began a national military survey starting with the south coast of England in anticipation of a French invasion.
For the second survey, in 1935, this process was also used, and resulted in the building of many short (approx four feet high), square, triangulation points (trig points) - concrete pillars on top of various high points and the working out the exact position of these by triangulation.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ordnance_Survey   (2126 words)

  
 Ordnance Survey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Ordnance Survey (OS) is the United Kingdom's national mapping agency, and one of the world's largest producers of maps.
It was gruelling work: Major, later the longest serving Director General of the Ordnance Survey, walked 586 miles in 22 days on a reconnaissance in 1819.
The Ordnance Survey is currently undertaking an unprecedented project to map every fixed feature of Great Britain larger than a few metres in one continuous.
www.newark.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Ordnance_Survey   (1381 words)

  
 Ordnance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The military term ordnance should not be confused with the civil term ordinance.
U.S. Navy explosive ordnance technicians prepare to destroy several tons of Soviet, Chinese and American rocket-propelled grenades (RPG's), mortars and other ordnance that were confiscated from Taliban and Al Qaeda forces during Operation Enduring Freedom.
Ordnance is a general term for a quantity of military equipment, usually specifying the ammunition for artillery, bombs, or other large weapons.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ordnance   (139 words)

  
 WOUK2000: Contact Ordnance Survey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Ordnance Survey - Britain's national mapping agency - is widely regarded as the world leader in its field.
Ordnance Survey was a pioneer in the conversion of paper maps to computer data, with Britain being the first country in the world to hold all its most detailed mapping in digital form.
Ordnance Survey® digital map data is protected by Crown copyright and remains the property of Ordnance Survey®.
www.bnsc.org /wouk/contacts/os.htm   (328 words)

  
 Ordnance Survey Maps
Other up-to-date Ordnance Survey mapping is available via the EDINA Digimap Service and provides coverage at a range of scales from 1:1250 (for urban areas) to 1:10 000 (for upland areas) in selected areas and at 1:250 000 as a full national coverage.
Ordnance Survey mapping for Northern Ireland is carried out by the Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland.
Ordnance Survey Town Plans: These were published for larger towns (over 4000 population) at scales of 1:500 and 1:1056 from about 1850 onwards.
www.lib.gla.ac.uk /Depts/MOPS/Maps/os.shtml   (638 words)

  
 Ordnance Survey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In addition to producing a wide range of UK maps, the organisation is also working in over sixty countries world-wide.
Ordnance Survey maps are available in most bookshops, generally in two scales:
There is a difference between the grid used in the mapping of Ireland compared to Great Britain and the Scottish islands.
www.encyclopedia-online.info /Ordnance_Survey   (1469 words)

  
 The changing role of national mapping organisations: A case study of Ordnance Survey
Ordnance Survey was established as a military organisation in 1791 at a time of great turbulence in Europe.
This momentous decision led to the establishment of Ordnance Survey and the subsequent mapping of the whole of Great Britain (the countries of England, Wales and Scotland within the United Kingdom).
Ordnance Survey continued to maintain and develop topographic mapping of Great Britain throughout the nineteenth century.
www.gisdevelopment.net /policy/international/mi04003.htm   (353 words)

  
 Historical Introduction to Ordnance Survey of Isle of Man
Prior to the national Ordnance Survey, mappings of the British Isles had been done on a county basis; these were on differing scales and although some were good most were inaccurate.
It was following General William Roy's survey of Scotland following the 1745 rebellion that inspired the Board of Ordnance (the body responsible for weapons etc.) to undertake a similar survey of England and Wales.
The Ordnance Survey was officially established in 1791 for the express purpose of making a national map on the scale of One Inch to One Mile (scale 1:63360).
www.isle-of-man.com /manxnotebook/maps/os.htm   (1151 words)

  
 Ordnance Survey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Crown copyright applies to all Ordnance Survey maps or based mapping from the publication date to the end of that calendar year and then for a further 50 years.
Ordnance Survey maps older than this may be copied without restriction.
Local authority funded, aided or financially supported schools are regarded as departments of their local authority and are covered by the copyright licence held by the local authority with Ordnance Survey.
www.lyme.st-helens.sch.uk /Homepage/OS.htm   (387 words)

  
 Ordnance Survey Maps Out its Future Internet Portal Strategy by Selecting Interwoven's Enterprise Content Management ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Ordnance Survey must also meet strict British government guidelines that stipulate that all government services must be available online by 2005.
Ordnance Survey faces two major challenges: first, ensuring that staff can develop content for the site and secondly, that content is accurate, conforms to brand guidelines, and is easily accessible.
Ordnance Survey currently plans to have approximately 25 content editors and as many as 100 authors/contributors, including partners, using the system by August 2002.
www.interwoven.com /news/press/2002/0415ordnancepr.html   (729 words)

  
 Customer Profile: Ordnance Survey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The data is stored and reproduced in various ways for Ordnance Survey customers, who use it with location-related applications that identify and display such properties as areas at risk of flooding, the best ambulance route--including taking into account detailed physical road conditions--and the location for the nearest café or hiking trail.
Ordnance Survey is also interested in Grid computing for its dynamic provisioning and central management of nodes, storage, CPUs, and memory that allows the system to be easily and efficiently maintained while lowering costs through improved utilization.
Ordnance Survey is the United Kingdom's national mapping agency, generating more than US$150 billion for the government in the United Kingdom every year.
www.oracle.com /pls/cis/Profiles.print_html?p_profile_id=100334   (1269 words)

  
 Get a map online free from Ordnance Survey, Britain's national mapping agency   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Where Get-a-map, Ordnance Survey and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland are hyperlinks to http://www.getamap.co.uk, http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/ and http://www.osni.gov.uk/ respectively.
All hard copies and electronically published material produced from Ordnance Survey data must carry the acknowledgement: Reproduced from Ordnance Survey map data by permission of Ordnance Survey, © Crown copyright.
For permission to publish any material for Northern Ireland please contact: Copyright Administration, Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland, Colby House, Stranmillis Court, BELFAST, BT9 5BJ Phone: +44 (0)28 9025 5722 email: osni@doeni.gov.uk We are not liable for any errors or omissions in OSNI data.
www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk /oswebsite/getamap   (852 words)

  
 Ordnance Survey Ireland: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Irish (gaeilge in irish) is a goidelic language spoken in ireland and in small communities in canada and argentina....
Together with the Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland quick summary:
Ordnance survey of northern ireland is the mapping agency in northern ireland, part of the united kingdom....
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/o/or/ordnance_survey_ireland.htm   (344 words)

  
 Ordnance Survey Ireland :: Mapping :: Other products :: Other publications   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
This history of the Ordnance Survey gives an account of the work of the Ordnance Survey from its founding in 1824 to 1991.
The Archaeological Branch (Dúchas) conducts surveys of Irelands Megalithic monuments.
The results are published in the Volumes of the Survey of The Megalithic Tombs of Ireland which may be purchased through the Government Publications Office in Molesworth St. Dublin 2.
www.osi.ie /mapping/other/other.shtml   (165 words)

  
 eoPortal directory: Ordnance Survey
As we move towards the millennium, Ordnance Survey's mission is to be customers' first choice for mapping today and tomorrow.
The South Coast of England needed to be comprehensively and speedily surveyed and mapped for the Government's Board of Ordnance - `ordnance' meaning military supplies and equipment - so that adequate defences could be planned.
This Board of Ordnance survey is the source of the mapping agency's intriguing name.
directory.eoportal.org /info_OrdnanceSurvey.html   (222 words)

  
 Plumtree Software : News : Press Release : 06/12/02 : Ordnance Survey selects Plumtree Corporate Portal to boost online ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The project is a key component of Ordnance Survey's e-business strategy for putting its services online by 2005, which has gained approval by the Office of the e-Envoy.
Ordnance Survey were looking for an open solution built to integrate their current and future technologies, written in various programming languages and running on different platforms.
Mark Waddilove, Ordnance Survey's information systems project manager, said: "It was clear that we needed a portal and we did not want to be locked into one vendor.
www.plumtree.com /uk/newz/pressreleases/2002/press061202.htm   (947 words)

  
 Buy Maps by Ordnance Survey, IGN and other map ranges from Aqua3   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The 204 Ordnance Survey maps - Landranger range cover the country; each OS map covers an area of 40 x 40 km (25 x 25 miles) and like other Ordnance Survey maps, National Grid squares are provided so that any feature can be given a unique reference number.
Ordnance Survey maps - Travel Map Road Range offer an up to date OS road map, with tourist information and place names index.
Visitors will find the Ordnance Survey maps Discoverer range invaluable for finding out where to go and what to see in the area.
www.aqua3.com /index.asp?pin=BRI   (833 words)

  
 ArcNews Summer 2005 Issue -- Great Britain's Ordnance Survey Signs Agreement with ESRI (UK)
Ordnance Survey (OS), Great Britain's national mapping agency, has signed an Enterprise Site License agreement with ESRI (UK) Ltd. to consolidate its current use of ESRI software as a key component of its corporate mapping, data capture, and management solution for maintaining OS MasterMap and related mapping datasets.
This agreement has been formed as a result of an Ordnance Survey project to develop a new geospatial data storage, management, and maintenance infrastructure.
Vanessa Lawrence, director general and chief executive at Ordnance Survey, says, "OS MasterMap is a complete reference system for British geographic data, which sets a new standard in mapping information.
www.esri.com /news/arcnews/summer05articles/great-britain.html   (273 words)

  
 Ordnance Survey - the national mapping agency of Great Britain
Ordnance Survey has won a gold award in the annual Geographical Association Awards for the GIS Zone on its MapZone educational web site.
A powerful series of enhancements to Ordnance Survey’s most detailed digital address data has been launched, offering significant benefits to customers across Great Britain’s commercial and government sectors.
Ordnance Survey is giving former staff the chance to revisit their old work place to see how things at the mapping agency have changed over recent years.
www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk   (561 words)

  
 Ordnance Survey Maps
Ordnance Survey Maps, always the world’s most detailed, are getting better.
Ordnance Survey information can be accessed via the internet on www.ordnancesurvey.gov.uk and although maps can be viewed and downloaded, they are not of sufficient detail and are no replacement for the paper maps.
The only way to get to know Ordnance Survey maps is to study and use them; the scale of 1:25,000 series makes them more user-friendly for beginners.
homepages.tesco.net /~john.gaskell/landrover/ordnance.htm   (458 words)

  
 Ordnance Survey Uk Information
Ordnance Survey produces digital and paper maps and OS MasterMap for business, leisure, government and education, with quality Crown copyright maps of Great Britain.
Ordnance Survey the national mapping agency of Great Britain See all our sites Login Site Search Search site Start of primary navigation Skip, Primary navigation home business leisure about us End of.
According to a survey conducted by the Ponemon Institute, customers are actively punishing companies that lose their confidential and private information.
survey.search3.info /marinesurv/ordnance-survey-uk   (227 words)

  
 WebWire® | Ordnance Survey welcomes first commercial partner for GPS network
The first public service based on Ordnance Survey’s national network of GPS base stations is announced today.
Ordnance Survey’s network can support different levels of improved real-time accuracy for any GPS positioning application anywhere in Great Britain.
Ordnance Survey’s development of the network was recognised at this month’s Information Management 2005 Awards.
www.webwire.com /ViewPressRel.asp?aId=7155   (463 words)

  
 Ordnance Survey announces Faster route to information and promotion
Ordnance Survey maps are playing a growing role on the world wide web, bringing benefits to thousands of consumers of all kinds.
The service includes Ordnance Survey's popular Landranger mapping data, and goes on to show street level detail.
Supporting map services on the web is a key part of Ordnance Survey's drive to maximise the benefits to Britain of its vast store of geographic information.
www.gisdevelopment.net /news/2000/dec/ordanace.htm   (906 words)

  
 GENUKI: Ordnance Survey Maps   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The map sheet numbers are also shown at the beginning of the Ordnance Survey Memoirs and are numbered sequentially 1,2,3, etc.
Black and white reproductions are available from Ordnance Survey Ireland.
These are ordnance survey maps on which valuation lot numbers are superimposed.
www.sierratel.com /colinf/genuki/CAV/Maps/OrdnanceMaps.html   (318 words)

  
 Ordnance Survey information and related industry information from Hoover's
Ordnance Survey provides current and historical maps and digital geographical information used by government entities, utilities, insurers, emergency services, property developers, and others.
Ordnance Survey, which was established in 1791, is part of the UK government; however, it covers its own operating costs by selling its products and services or licensing its copyrighted material to others for use.
Ordnance Survey attempts to have 99% of all significant features -- such as buildings or infrastructure -- in its database within six months of completion.
www.hoovers.com /ordnance-survey/--ID__128145--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml   (316 words)

  
 Cumbria - Ordnance Survey Maps
The Ordnance Survey Landranger series of 1:50000 scale (approx one inch to the mile) maps (purple) cover the whole country, and the following cover the county of Cumbria.
The Ordnance Survey Outdoor Leisure series of 1:25000 scale (approx two and a half inches to the mile) maps (yellow) cover 45 of the popular tourist areas of Britain.
The Ordnance Survey Explorer series of 1:25000 scale (approx two and a half inches to the mile) maps (orange) introduced during 2001 cover the rest of Britain not covered by Outdoor Leisure maps.
www.visitcumbria.com /osmaps.htm   (352 words)

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