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COLNE as it was more than 90 years ago can now be revisited following the publication of an old Ordnance Survey map. The map covers the area from Church Street northwards, including Market Street ...
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 ...
Ordnance Survey map from 1937 Simon Garfield, author of On the Map, agrees with O'Keefe that OS maps are an integral part of British culture. "Ordnance Survey maps were originally inspired by 18th ...
Those navigating using one of the more functional modern online maps will see nothing marked except blank grey space. But those using an Ordnance Survey map will see the crossed swords that reveal ...
Death of the Great British map: As the Ordnance Survey cuts production, how sat-navs put a national treasure in peril. A decade ago, the national map agency sold 2.9 million copies yearly ...