Ordnance Survey

noun

1. the official map-making body of the British or Irish government

Example Sentences

She worked from large Ordnance Survey maps and captured photos to plot every point, to enable approaching craft to know they were at the correct part of the beach.

From BBC

Her bicycle was found by Ordnance Survey workers lying in a field on the Metton to Roughton road an hour after she left home.

From BBC

To begin this exploration, Humphreys orders a map of his neck of the woods from Britain’s Ordnance Survey, which, for a fee, will create a map of any 20 square kilometers of the country at 1:25,000 scale, where four centimeters is the equivalent of one kilometer on the ground.

From New York Times

The company has recently signed a £5.5m partnership with the UK - funded by the UK Space Agency - to provide satellite data on methane emissions to UK organisations such as Ordnance Survey.

From BBC

The book, which has been compared to a map-collector's version of the first folio of Shakespeare, was not fully replaced as the definitive geographical representation of England and Wales until Ordnance Survey began publishing one-inch maps in 1801, they added.

From BBC