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Ordnance Survey

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Ordnance Survey (OS) has over 230 years’ experience as Great Britain’s National Mapping Agency and is a world-leading provider of geospatial information. Public and private sector organisations rely on OS data when delivering critical infrastructure and services, in applications such as:

  • urban planning
  • environmental management
  • calculation of insurance risk
  • management of utility infrastructures
  • routing emergency services.

An important part of the use of geospatial information is the communication of geographical patterns in data, often in the form of maps. Making maps of complex information is difficult to do well, and benefits from interactivity and animation, but there are many pitfalls. Modern computing and means of display, and presentation of data presents many new opportunities.