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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...

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Ordnance 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...

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The 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...

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Ordnance 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...

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What 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...

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Government 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...

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Mapping 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...

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Calling 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....

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Alternative 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...

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Registering 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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