COLNE as it was more than 90 years ago can now be revisited following the publication of an old Ordnance Survey map.

Ordnance Survey revamps its maps with new colour scheme 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.

The 74-year-old told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that he was "very attracted to many aspects of British culture". Two aspects that he named were the NHS and the Ordnance Survey map.

THE initiation of an entirely new ordnance map series on a scale of 1: 25,000, or about 2 ½ inches to the mile, was one of the chief recommendations of a departmental committee set up in 1935. It ...

Imagine pootling down the B3046 out of New Alresford, looking to your left across a bit of English scenery. Those navigating using one of the more functional modern online maps will see nothing marked ...

Stuffy old Ordnance Survey, best known for creating the maps you used to use before your phone did it much better, has created an absolutely vast Minecraft map of Britain, using 22 billion blocks.

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.

A 124-year-old Ordnance Survey map is being used as the template for a £1m restoration and improvement project for the oldest park in Abingdon.

The ordnance survey teams, led by Col Thomas Colby, mapped 60,000 townlands systematically from North to South into a total of 1907 map sheets.

I have visited the Ordnance Survey and seen the work of its gifted team of 250 cartographers, who update the map of Britain with 10,000 amendments every day.

The 74-year-old told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that he was "very attracted to many aspects of British culture". Two aspects that he named were the NHS and the Ordnance Survey map.