Why ‘space weather’ is bad news for map making
What is ‘space weather’? Well this generally means solar flares – or as you might have heard on the news recently – coronal mass ejections to give them their full title! Solar flares are related to...
View ArticleWill 4G mobile broadband spell the end of GPS?
A battle is raging on the other side of the Atlantic. It’s a battle about use of the airwaves, or more precisely “radio spectrum,” by two rival American technologies. In one corner is the well...
View ArticleIs Britain on the move?
Australia has recently announced a 1.8m shift in its mapping coordinates, to compensate for the country’s 7.5cm shift north each year. Inevitably the question is why, and could the same thing happen...
View ArticleOSTN15 – the new geoid for Britain
Seeing as an improvement in our model that transforms height from GPS to one above mean sea level has caused a hill to “grow” into a mountain – we thought it would be a good idea to explain how...
View ArticleAre Britain’s mountains shrinking?
Last month we had a story about hills growing into mountains and now we blog about the opposite situation…Recent press stories about what *might* happen if rising sea levels lead to a change in the...
View ArticleHow to map a new country?
Update: DVD released on 24 July 2017. We have one copy of the DVD to give away. Just retweet this message by 12 noon on Friday 28 July: https://twitter.com/OrdnanceSurvey/status/889486114536476674...
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