Ordnance Survey invites you to explore

Ordnance Survey has launched ‘explore’, an exciting new web-based community portal, which invites outdoor enthusiasts to share their favourite routes, pictures and stories with the rest of the world.

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• Find out how your business can use geographic information.
• Understand how our products are used in different markets. 
• Work with us in partnership to develop products, services and solutions using our data.
• Large-scale detailed mapping of individual buildings for planning applications.
• Publish or copy mapping using our copyright and licensing guidelines. 

• Buy maps online – OS Explorer Maps and our famous pink OS Landranger Maps.
• Create your personalised OS Select™ map.
• Research the past with historical mapping.

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• About our role in education and our special initiatives for schools and children.
• Our latest news releases and latest vacancies.
• Your information rights, including Freedom of Information, Re-use of Public Sector Information, Intellectual property rights and Information Fair Trader Scheme. 

Latest news

Ordnance Survey runs “Getting the most out of OS MasterMap” courses

Ordnance Survey, the national mapping agency, is hosting a series of one day seminars across Great Britain to help local authorities and the emergency services get the most out of its flagship product, OS MasterMap.

Conference call for global action

Senior representatives and leaders from worldwide mapping organisations have resolved to encourage the importance of maps and geographic information in Africa, following the successful 2007 Cambridge Conference of national mapping organisations.

Ordnance Survey puts London on the Pictometry^® map

We have become the first organisation to offer Pictometry oblique imagery for the whole of London. This provides a detailed view of the elevation, shape, design and surroundings of buildings from a range of different angles.

2006-07 Annual Report published

We exceeded all five financial and service quality targets set by government for 2006–07. We also made numerous enhancements to our flagship OS MasterMap^® product, as well as extending coverage of our OS Explorer Map – Active series to the whole of Great Britain.

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