More Chaos at the Ordnance Survey
It gives me no pleasure to return to this topic but this week the Ordnance Survey if facing further, dramatic, problems with their consumer online services. During the summer many customers of the...
View ArticleOrdnance Survey’s Trading Wing Could Well Be Being Prepared for Privatisation!
Route finding on the TGO Challenge The latest publicity around the latest service problems that the Ordnance Survey have prompted a number of emails including one from someone...
View ArticleThe Scale of the OS Share Sale …£3M plus
This is the relevant section of the OS accounts. You can see that almost £4M of shares have been shared of the waiver of inter company debt. Think about it. That’s £4M of tax payers money that has...
View ArticleOrdnance Survey En Route to Privatisation: Gains and Losses.
Last weeks pieces on the latest troubles of the Ordnance Survey prompted quite a response from readers, some who passed on articles and information that I had not come across before. It is now clear to...
View ArticleWhat on Earth is the OS Doing?
OK. I’m not obsessive, really I’m not. The revised OS Mapfinder app went live at the end of last week and was pulled again yesterday! I don’t think I’ve ever come across an app that is pulled as...
View ArticleGovernment Takes Decisive Action to End Chaos at the Ordnance Survey
Even for those of us who have been following the debacle that has become the Ordnance Survey the last days have been quite extraordinary, culminating in the announcement, today, that Director Vanessa...
View ArticleMapping for the Future
While it might be too soon to write off the paper map there’s no doubt that mapping is changing at a rate of knots. Here are a couple of pieces that I have picked up from the web over the last few...
View ArticleCalling Routebuddy Users
Paging anyone who uses Routebuddy on a desktop machine — Windows or Mac OSX. I am currently producing some video tutorials on using Routebuddy and am keen to test them with some beta test volunteers....
View ArticleAlternative Mapping Systems: Scribble Maps
It is a while since I have written about maps and mapping services. One of my themes over the last few years has been the impact that new technology will have over conventional maps, with the ability...
View ArticleRegistering Rights of Way — Restoring the Record
About this time every year I get a reminder from the Rights of Way: Restoring the Record campaign and it something that all of us in England and Wales should give a little thought to. Currently all...
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