What does OS stand for?

Ordnance Survey

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Samples in periodicals archive:

Development will be delivered in a manner that allows Ordnance Survey to support, maintain and evolve the data and systems.

Teachers have until November 30 to place their order for the free maps and guides with the Ordnance Survey.

Anna was given the chance to learn how Time Team is made, including how Ordnance Survey maps are used to interpret the historic landscape.

SCHOOLS in the Vale of Glamorgan have been urged to apply for free Ordnance Survey maps by local MP John Smith.

The aerial shots are then matched up to Ordnance Survey maps to identify addresses.

Go along to the Ordnance Survey Outdoors Show which takes place at the NEC from March 16-18.

Figures from Ordnance Survey Ireland confirmed their case last week.

The most useful to you for this inquiry, I suspect, will probably be the 1:2,500 Ordnance Survey map of Moseley, fourth edition, for the late 1930s.