Subject: ‘ordnance survey’
| May 22, 2011 Making Color Blind Friendly MapsGIS NewsIt’s estimated that about 7% of males are color blind in some form (as compared with 0.4% of females). While a very small percentage don’t see color at all, the most common form of color blindness is the inability to differentiate red and green colors. One area that color blindness can be challenging is ... read more April 27, 2011What is it like to be a cartographer?Career, CartographyThe British Cartographic Society highlights series of posts and videos on the field of cartography. If you want an idea of what cartography was like in the 1950s, check out the video “A Cartographer’s Way in the 1950s“. To see how cartography has evolved, the Ordnance Survey blog takes a look at Cartography – from ... read more April 3, 2010 OpenDataDataThe British Ordnance Survey has launched OpenData where visitors can view and download geographic data. The web site was developed as the result of select Ordnance Survey data being made freely available to the public as the result of a protracted battle by the “Free Our Data” coalition. The report on the future direction of ... read more March 5, 2010 GeoBriefs: Platial No More, Brief History of Ordnance SurveyGIS NewsPlatial announced its demise. The site went offline March 2nd and GeoCommons will be hosting all “geo-data (maps and places) from Platial’s 5 years of neogeography.” (Via James Fee) The Platial blog and Twitter account platialmaps live on. Learn about the Ordnance Survey with their quick “A brief history of Ordnance Survey” page. Get printable congressional district ... read more December 10, 2009 Ordnance Survey: Mapping – A Future?DataBBC Radio 4 featured an interview with Director General Vanessa Lawrence of the Ordnance Survey and Charles Arthur, technology editor at the Guardian Newspaper. The Ordnance Survey and the recent announcement to make their data freely available was discussed on the You and Yours programme on Monday 7th December in a feature titled “Ordnance Survey: ... read more November 18, 2009 Ordnance Survey Data to be Made Freely AvailableDataA press release from the British government entitled “Re-mapping the future for Ordnance Survey – making public data public” has announced that the Ordnance Survey will “will open up its data relating to electoral and local authority boundaries, postcode areas and mid scale mapping information.” The announcement comes after a protracted battle by groups such ... read more |
