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In the News (Wed 15 Feb 12)

  
  Other Ordnance Survey web sites
Although they share the name Ordnance Survey they are, in fact, three separate organisations each responsible to their own governments.
Ordnance Survey has created this site to make mapping come alive for kids but also help them with their homework, it is a fully interactive mapping experience with animations, games and quizzes.
Ordnance Survey is Great Britain's national mapping agency, providing the most accurate and up-to-date geographic data, relied on by government, business and the public.
www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk /site/ossites.html   (494 words)

  
 Ordnance Survey Ireland - Press Release   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Ordnance Survey Ireland, the national mapping authority was established in 1824.
Ordnance Survey Ireland continues to be a leader in the use of developing mapping technology.
Ordnance Survey has also taken the unusual step of replacing through a total resurvey its large and small scale databases, giving it brand new state of the art mapping databases which will be compatible with the anticipated uses for geographic information.
www.geoplace.com /pressrelease/pressdetail_print.asp?id=2145   (443 words)

  
 ordnance survey ireland / supplements / ireland.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
While surveying in Donegal a Lieutenant Thomas Drummond, who invented the limelight and hence the stage expression "in the limelight", complained in his diary about the "villainous climate" which blew down his tent and left him writing "from a kind of cave on the lee side of the hill".
The maps produced by this first "all-Ireland" survey were useful to establish administrative boundaries, and as a basis for a population census and geological surveys.
As the first surveys were completed and published when Ireland's population was at an historical high - just before the calamitous famine of the 1840s - the maps provide an almost comprehensive guide to population distribution and settlements during that period.
www.ireland.com /newspaper/supplements/1999/osi/drawing.htm   (835 words)

  
 Publisher detail: Ordnance Survey Ireland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Ordnance Survey Ireland is the national mapping agency of the Republic of Ireland.
Ordnance Survey Ireland licenses the use of its data for a wide range of computer-based applications such as computer–aided design (CAD) and geographical information systems (GIS).
There are a number of special interest maps available from Ordnance Survey Ireland, including Dublin motoring and tourist maps and the Complete Road Atlas of Ireland.
leisure.ordnancesurvey.co.uk /leisure/ItemDetails.jsp?item=osi   (322 words)

  
 The Valuation of Ireland (Ordnance Survey)
The principle adopted is the formation of a central commission acting in conjunction with the local authorities; the classification of lands, according to an ascertained value, is made by three resident proprietors of land in each district, selected by the municipal council, and by the chief officer of revenue.
The value of this to Ireland, whether she be a nation or a province, cannot be overrated.
In May, 1820, another Act was passed directing the Ordnance officers to send copies of their maps, as fast as finished, to the Lord Lieutenant, who was to appoint "one Commissioner of Valuation for any counties;" and to give notice of such appointment to the grand jury of every such county.
www.libraryireland.com /articles/ValuationIreland/index.php   (2873 words)

  
 Ireland maps from Omnimap.com, world leader in international map supply.
Ireland maps from Omnimap.com, world leader in international map supply.
Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland & Ordnance Survey of Ireland.
Ireland--Vulnerability Map of the Aquifers in the Republic of Ireland.
www.omnimap.com /catalog/int/ireland.htm   (896 words)

  
 Leica Geosystems - SIS & Leica Geosystems awarded GPS Network by Ordnance Survey Ireland
Leica Geosystems, and its partner in Ireland, Survey Instrument Services (SIS), are pleased to announce that they have been awarded a major contract by Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSi) for ‘The design, provision, installation and ongoing support and maintenance of a Real Time, centimetric-accuracy GPS Network for Ireland’.
Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland (OSNI) had options to purchase systems within this process and Leica Geosystems who already provide the GPS infrastructure for post-processing Active Networks in both the Republic and Northern Ireland took both the OSi and the OSNI GPS networks fully into account during the competitive tender.
The opportunity to join with OSNI's existing network makes the transition to an all-Ireland RTK network efficient in terms of the number of base stations required and gives a homogeneous positioning system across the whole of Ireland.” Dick Kirwan, Chief Executive of Ordnance Survey Ireland.
www.leica-geosystems.com /news/2003/os_ireland.htm   (583 words)

  
 County Dublin , IrelandGenWeb Project
Dublin (county and county borough, Republic of Ireland) in Leinster Province, adjoining the Irish Sea.
Dublin (city, Republic of Ireland) (Gaelic Baile ¡tha Cliath, “Town of the Ford of the Hurdles”), capital, county borough, and seaport of the Republic of Ireland, county town of county Dublin, in Leinster Province.
It is at the mouth of the Liffey River, on Dublin Bay, an inlet of the Irish Sea.
www.rootsweb.com /~irldub   (383 words)

  
 Ordnance Survey Ireland Bill 2001 - Department of Finance - Government of Ireland
For most of its 176-year history the Ordnance Survey has operated - and remains structured - as a public service support office providing maps for the administrative and legislative functions of the state.
It was therefore necessary, he said, to bring forward this legislation to transform Ordnance Survey Ireland into a separate state body with a commercial remit while, of course, still carrying out its traditional function of providing essential mapping services for the administrative, legislative and infrastructural functions of the state.
a mechanism for service agreements between Ordnance Survey Ireland and the Minister that certain outputs will be required and standards met by OSI in return for a state subvention.
www.finance.gov.ie /viewdoc.asp?fn=/documents/news/mar01/mcc814.htm   (557 words)

  
 Get a map online free from Ordnance Survey, Britain's national mapping agency
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 /getamap   (853 words)

  
 Ordnance Survey Ireland :: Geodetic services :: Welcome
Following on from the update of 29th June, OSi is pleased to announce that Trimble Europe B.V. is now in a position to also provide a Real-time GPS positioning service in Ireland.
Using the precise data supplied by Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSI) and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland (OSNI), Trimble VRS Now delivers centimetre accurate RTK corrections anywhere within the network, customised for each rovers exact location.
Service to Ireland is a continuation of Trimbles focus on simplifying access to high precision corrections around the world.
www.osi.ie /gps   (809 words)

  
 OEEPE Workshop, DTM Deviation at Ordnance Survey Ireland
Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSi) is the national mapping agency of the Republic of Ireland.
The need for a rapid expansion of the survey programmes, in particular in rural areas and plans for completing a 1:50,000 tourist map of Ireland, and reduction in staff numbers led to a review of operations in 1992.
Ordnance Survey Ireland aims to provide the maps and data essential to users of geographic information.
phot.epfl.ch /workshop/wks99/5_2.html   (5413 words)

  
 BUBL LINK: Ireland
Database of Parliamentary papers relating to Ireland between the Act of Union in 1901 and partition in 1922.
A catalogue of all the languages and dialects spoken in Ireland, with details of the numbers of speakers of each language.
Ireland's national agency which aims to undertake, coordinate, promote and assist in marine research and development, including compiling the Irish Temperature Data Set.
bubl.ac.uk /link/i/ireland.htm   (767 words)

  
 GENUKI: Ordnance Survey Maps   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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)

  
 Ireland Ordnance Survey buy online
The Irish Ordnance Survey produces a variety of high quality topographic maps of Ireland as well as other maps useful for walking in Ireland & Irish geneology research.
Weatherproof, Tear proof & rewritable Ordnance Survey of Ireland Discovery maps.
Ireland Map West 02 (Ordnance Survey, Folded Map, Scale 1:250 000)
www.mapsworldwide.com /ordnance_survey_266ss0.htm   (186 words)

  
 eBay - ordnance survey ..., Software, Postcards Paper items on eBay.com
Ordnance Survey Street Atlas of Birmingham and WestMids
Weedon Bec jigsaw of victorian ordnance survey map NEW
Ordnance Survey 1" map TRURO and FALMOUTH 7th series 1961
search-desc.ebay.com /search/search.dll?query=ordnance+survey+...&krd=1   (290 words)

  
 Irish Historic Maps
Between 1829 and 1842 Ordnance Survey Ireland completed the first ever large-scale survey of an entire country.
Acclaimed for their accuracy, these maps are regarded by cartographers as amongst the finest ever produced.
As the national mapping archive service for Ireland, OSi has captured this and later mapping data in a digitised format.
www.irishhistoricmaps.ie /historic   (71 words)

  
 Ordnance Survey - We've Found the Best Ordnance Survey Websites - Our Survey Directory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Ordnance Survey produces digital and paper maps and OS MasterMap for business, leisure, government and education, with quality Crown copyright maps of Great Britain.
Ordnancemaps is intended for anyone with an interest in Ordnance Survey Maps to ask questions, assist in research, and pass on information on any aspect of Ordnance Survey maps.
MapZone ® is a totally free, bright and lively web site produced by Ordnance Survey that aims to teach children, between 7 and 16 years, mapping skills in a fun way.
www.cnisurvey.com /survey/ordnance_survey.html   (430 words)

  
 Ordnance Survey Ireland :: Geodetic services   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
A new service essential for GPS (Global Positioning System) users in Ireland will be made available on the 29 July 2002.
and The Commissioners of Irish Lights to cover the Whole Island of Ireland.
It will be primarily aimed at professional surveyors, geodesists and GIS developers to improve the accessibility of the national coordinate systems in Ireland, which over time will lead to better compatibility of spatial datasets from different sources.
www.osi.ie /services   (91 words)

  
 ordnance survey ireland / supplements / ireland.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Now celebrating 175 years of innovation and service, the Ordnance Survey is preparing to play a leading part in the information age.
Geoff Robinson, director of Ordnance Survey Great Britain, speaks to Barry McCall about the future for the mapping industry.
Ordnance Survey Ireland has developed a very powerful Geographic System.
www.ireland.com /newspaper/supplements/1999/osi   (761 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Kerry (Irish Discovery Maps S.): Books: Ordnance Survey of Ireland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
It covers an area 40km x 30km and is produced at a scale of 1:50,000.
There are 89 sheets in the series; 71 are published by Ordnance Survey of Ireland and 18 by Ordnance Survey Northern Ireland.
Killarney National Park by Ordnance Survey of Ireland
www.amazon.co.uk /Kerry-Irish-Discovery-Maps-S/dp/190149683X   (201 words)

  
 Ireland Maps and Atlas for sale by Travel Genie
Ireland Maps and Atlas for sale by Travel Genie
Go to the page with Ireland Map Questions and Answers (then you may use the "Back" button on your browser to return to this page.)
We can usually check email at least once a week, but we may not be able to answer questions or fill orders while we are out of town.
showcase.netins.net /web/travelgenie/ireland.htm   (477 words)

  
 Ireland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Official Maps - Ordnance Survey of Ireland and Northern Ireland
Targeting selected regions of Ireland, you will be able to plan, create, view, print, store and share routes created using 1:450,000 and 1:50,000 mapping, aerial photography and Digital Terrain Models.
Collins Road Map - Ireland Sheet 1 (North of Dublin), Sheet 2 (Dublin and South)
www.themapshop.co.uk /ireland.htm   (501 words)

  
 ORDNANCE SURVEY IRELAND ACT, 2001   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
(4) For the purpose of the exercise or performance of any of the functions conferred on it under this Act, OSI may place or cause to be placed on any land or premises survey marks for the purpose of supporting the national grid and geodetic and height frameworks.
—(1) Any person who immediately before the establishment day was a member of the staff of the Ordnance Survey and who is designated by the Minister for employment in OSI shall on the appointed day be transferred to and become a member of the staff of OSI.
—This Act may be cited as the Ordnance Survey Ireland Act, 2001.
www.irishstatutebook.ie /2001_43.html   (5465 words)

  
 Ordnance Survey Ireland :: Mapping :: Aerial photography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Ordnance Survey Ireland :: Mapping :: Aerial photography
The Ordnance Survey can provide monochrome or colour aerial photography from a large archive dating back to the 1960s.
Enlargements in both full colour or fl and white are also available.
www.ordnancesurveyireland.ie /mapping/aerial   (101 words)

  
 Find in a Library: The Ordnance Survey road atlas of Ireland.
Find in a Library: The Ordnance Survey road atlas of Ireland.
by Ordnance Survey (Ireland); Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland.
Publisher: Goldenbridge, Dublin : Gill and Macmillan in association with Ordnance Survey of Ireland and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland, 1985.
worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/34534851bee36226a19afeb4da09e526.html   (76 words)

  
 Ordnance Survey Ireland Discovery Maps
Ireland Ordnance Survey Discovery and Discoverer Map Series.
If you're staying in one place in Ireland, it's best to buy one or two of these 1:50,000 scale maps to explore the area in depth.
Discoverer maps cover Northern Ireland, and Discovery maps cover the Republic of Ireland
www.elstead.co.uk /acatalog/Ordnance_Survey_Ireland_Discovery_Maps.html   (90 words)

  
 Ireland Ordnance Survey Discovery Maps buy online
Discovery Map 67: Kilkenny, Tipperary (Ordnance Survey of Ireland, Folded Map, Scale 1:50 000)
Discovery Map 69: Wexford (Ordnance Survey of Ireland, Folded Map, Scale 1:50 000)
Discovery Map 77: Wexford (Ordnance Survey of Ireland, Folded Map, Scale 1:50 000)
www.mapsworldwide.com /discovery_maps_249c-1.htm   (1047 words)

  
 Ordnance Survey, Britain's national mapping agency
We are proud to begin highlighting Great Britain’s World Heritage sites in celebration of the country’s magnificent built and natural landscape.
Ordnance Survey customers move ahead on OS MasterMap journey
As a result, we are announcing to customers and technology partners the withdrawal of Land-Line on 30 September, 2008.
www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk   (362 words)

  
 SurveyIreland.ie - The Irish Society of Surveying, Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.
SurveyIreland.ie - The Irish Society of Surveying, Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.
The Irish Society of Surveying, Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISSPandRS) is a learned society, founded in 1968, to further the development of the surveying and mapping related disciplines in Ireland.
The affairs of the Society are managed by an elected Council whose members, in 2004, are:
www.surveyireland.ie /about.html   (57 words)

  
 Ordnance Survey Ireland
National Map Centre Ireland fulfils orders for maps, guides and atlases produced by Ordnance Survey Ireland...
Irishmaps.ie is an Official ecommerce site for the Ordnance Survey Ireland.
National Map Centre Ireland, 34 Aungier Street, Dublin 2, Ireland.
www.irishmaps.ie   (67 words)

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