Ordnance Survey maps, the most common type of map in the UK, come in several scales. Travel maps have a scale of 1:125,000. This means 1 cm on the map represents 125,000 in the real world or 1 cm ...

Many Brits struggle to read paper maps - take quiz to test your knowledge The quiz includes questions on map symbols, scales, and contours - as nearly half of Brits don't know what contours ...

King of all things cartographical, Ordnance Survey (OS) maps are the original and the best when it comes to map reading. The orange Explorer maps are 1:25,000 in scale, ...

British mapping agency Ordnance Survey (OS) has released an easy-to-read map of terrain from the planet Mars. Open data published by Nasa was used to make the map, which has been posted on the OS ...

Between 1824 and 1842, the OS carried out the first ever large-scale survey of an entire country, at a scale of six inches to the mile and according to researchers at UL, the resulting maps are ...

Have you got what it takes to complete the OS Map Reading challenge? Experts have put together the test, which features questions on map symbols, scale, and how to read contours, to allow people ...