Earliest Ordnance Survey Maps

Today, the ordnance survey team carry out aerial surveys of the landscape to produce a giant electronic map of britain. As the national mapping archive service for ireland, osi has captured this and later mapping data in a digitised format. Ordnance survey already had its own international division.

Ordnance surveys of england and wales The ordnance survey (os) is the government agency responsible for producing mapping for the whole of great britain. We sell a limited reproduction range of one inch to one mile maps (revised from the late 1800s and published in the early years of the 1900s) from our os map shop.

The os started in kent over fears of a french invasion.

As such, the map “focused on communication routes and included hill shading to ensure men at. Every plan we create is made by our professional, experienced mapping team and checked against councils’ acceptance criteria to ensure you get the right plan first time. Ordnance survey maps are used by many different people, including the emergency services and ramblers. Finding and using ordnance survey maps early in the nineteenth century the ordnance survey department began producing series of detailed surveys that mapped much of the british isles.