The digital heritage resource focuses on the early years of ordnance surveying in Ireland, bringing together maps, texts, archaeological and toponymical material. Researchers at the University of ...

Maps allow us to see how the world is organised spatially and show us relationships which cannot be understood from simply reading a text.

In 1824, teams of surveyors began to map Ireland, making it the first place in the world to have detailed ordnance survey maps for an entire country. Now, 200 years later, these 6in to a mile maps, ...

Ordnance Survey Ireland has launched an updated version of all their maps. As of next week, the collection of national maps online will range from 1830 to present. Those researching their family ...

The Ordnance Survey, which is marking its Irish bicentenary this year, has been renamed Tailte Éireann in the Republic, while in the North it is called OSNI. The intriguing backstory behind the survey ...

Ordnance Survey is branching out, offering geospatial datasets on Snowflake Marketplace to help partners develop new ...

Two centuries ago Ireland was the setting for the world's first large-scale mapping of an entire country. A group of academics are retracing the steps of the surveyors who completed the Ordnance ...

An app which allows walkers to plot and follow routes around loughs, hills and valleys using detailed topographical mapping has been launched in Northern Ireland. OS Maps app has supported outdoor ...