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For this #MapMonday, we'll be making sure that all of the Ordnance Survey Quarter Inch #Maps that were published in 1975 are available on SABRE Maps, with the addition of Sheet 6 to add to all the others already available. Any ideas as to which 1975 maps we'll add next? buff.ly/AWqLo5c
Extract from #OrdnanceSurvey GB Quarter Inch map sheet 6 (Firth of Clyde) from 1975, which completes our full set of all sheets from that year.
January 5, 2026 at 6:01 PM
maps.sabre-roads.org.uk
Don't forget that we've also got every single Ordnance Survey Landranger #map from 1975 already online for your delectation and delight. And remember that you can compare them to the 1974 editions (and the previous One Inch maps) using our Map Fader.

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Extract from #OrdnanceSurvey OS map Landranger sheet 193 from 1975
January 2, 2026 at 10:00 AM
bcsmaps.bsky.social
A brief pause after this months council meeting to catch up and wish everyone at The BCS a Merry Christmas 🎄

Thank you to Geovation @ordnancesurvey for hosting us and to BCS President @PaulNaylor for leading a very successful year (and supplying the chocolates!)

Here’s to a prosperous 2026!
December 8, 2025 at 4:32 PM
humap.bsky.social
It's #MapMonday!

Nip back to #VictorianLondon with this collection of #OrdnanceSurvey maps on @layersoflondon.bsky.social, courtesy of @natli.bsky.social & @natlibscot.bsky.social

www.layersoflondon.org/map/...

#MappyMonday #GIS #HGIS #GLAM #DigitalHumanities
December 8, 2025 at 1:45 PM
imattlondon.bsky.social
Pleased with my new exclusive Ordnance Survey map - Great Britain’s largest islands having visited quite a few of them. #ordnancesurvey #map #greatbritain
November 27, 2025 at 6:41 PM
orielhighschool.bsky.social
Year 7 have been putting their @ordnancesurvey map skills to the test, directing rescue teams after ‘flooding’ at a nearby reservoir. 💜🗺️🧭🌍💜 #OrielGeography #Skills #Application #MapReading #WeLoveGeography
November 25, 2025 at 8:49 PM
grayee2024.bsky.social
John's Labour blog: Portsmouth and the Wayfarers' Walk johnslabourblog.org/2025/11/port... #portsmouth
@OrdnanceSurvey
#walks
November 14, 2025 at 10:19 PM
zorzstudios.com
Beautiful portraits of #JohnLennon and #YokoOno on vintage maps: zorz.it/xnMTY

#ShanilouPerera #artist #cartography #crosshatch #EdFairburn #VintageMaps #OrdnanceSurvey #portraits
October 25, 2025 at 7:40 PM
drgeoffsmith.bsky.social
It is great to be back where @slowwaysuk.bsky.social began. I am looking forward to an interesting event at @geomob.bsky.social London. @danravenellison.bsky.social #ordnancesurvey #geovation
October 22, 2025 at 5:23 PM
belgraviacalling.bsky.social
Large scale plan of Belgravia and Knightsbridge. Ordnance survey 1870. £1,850 www.themaphouse.com/artworks/128... #Belgravia #London #map #OrdnanceSurvey
Ordnance Survey, Knightsbridge & Belgravia, 1870
Large scale plan of Knightsbridge and Belgravia, with part of Hyde Park. [LDN3936] (BC)
www.themaphouse.com
October 22, 2025 at 12:35 PM
richmay.co.uk
Exploring the third and final of the English Curry Stool #trigpoint #ordnancesurvey. See the alt text of Henry telling me about them for more info
Henry sitting on the central point of the curry stool (a triangular concrete base) with Cow Green reservoir visible in the low clouds behind him Just the curry stool showing it's three legged form with a central bolt indicating the datum point "you see up here on the peat moorland a regular trig point would sink so instead they drove three deep rods into the bedrock and then put a concrete triangular cap on top from which to survey"
October 18, 2025 at 10:10 AM
durotrigesdig.bsky.social
Folklore has linked Cadbury Castle #Somerset to King Arthur for centuries

The ostensibly sober #OrdnanceSurvey once got in on this with an overtly definitive identification of the hillfort as 'Camelot'

So it must be true

(Please note, other Camelots are available)

#HillfortsWednesday
Inked line drawing of an Iron Age hillfort with contours, haschures and Gothic text
October 15, 2025 at 7:42 AM
maps.sabre-roads.org.uk
Amazingly, the #OrdnanceSurvey were still producing brand new civilian #maps in 1940. So, let's get nine examples of the final hurrah of the pre-war One Inch Popular Edition online for everyone to enjoy as part of the world's largest online collection. buff.ly/60rvcrJ
October 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
rlcj.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
#victorian innovation never ceases to amaze me. If there was a process needing industrialising, scaling, and making more efficient, they found the solution. Exhibit #1: how Carlisle solved the tricky problem of polishing its turds. #ordnancesurvey #Map #manure #envhist #nneteenthcentury #History
Detail from Ordnance Survey map showing Carlisle’s Manure Works and Varnish Works.
October 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM
maps.sabre-roads.org.uk
The next batch of #OrdnanceSurvey One Inch Popular #maps are now online. This is a relatively small set of six sheets- it's almost as if the OS were busy elsewhere. buff.ly/nnSVyaZ

Quick quiz - what's the most obvious difference between the extract and a modern map?
1939 Ordnance Survey OS map extract from England and Wales sheet 37.
September 29, 2025 at 5:01 PM
saveredlandlibr.bsky.social
Shared for #MapMonday

11:50am TODAY on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social

From 1960, “LOOK AT LIFE: ON THE MAP” on the production of Ordnance Survey maps

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talkingpicturestv.bsky.social Talking Pictures TV @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social · Sep 29
A fascinatingly detailed look at the production of Ordinance Survey maps.

LOOK AT LIFE: ON THE MAP (1960) 11:50am on #TPTV
September 29, 2025 at 10:47 AM
craigmoulding.bsky.social
Well, Dad was in his element tonight with new Year 7 Geography homework. OS mapping, grid referencing, contours and of course some good old GIS and dat analysis. Hands on learning via Dad @calderdale.bsky.social #gis #geo #ordnancesurvey
September 17, 2025 at 7:11 PM
bcsmaps.bsky.social
Thank you to @OrdnanceSurvey for their support in sponsoring and judging the best student map award 2025.

Congratulations to our winner for 2025 - Atlas Guo and Winona Liu for their entry “Our spatial memories of the United States”
September 12, 2025 at 1:31 PM
bcsmaps.bsky.social
Thank you to @OrdnanceSurvey for their support in sponsoring and judging the best student map award 2025.

Congratulations to the three runners up in this category: Matthew Young, and Highly Commended entries from both Hannah Ismail, and Chenlei Jiang.
September 12, 2025 at 1:02 PM
europa.uk.com
Medal makers – the next time you need some mapping for your medal design, perhaps get in touch?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
🥇OS Strategic Partner
#GreatNorthRun #OrdnanceSurvey #OSPartner #SuccessLocated
Great North Run medals show Sunderland instead of Newcastle
Medals given to participants use an image of Sunderland, which has no connection to the event.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 8, 2025 at 2:23 PM
bcsmaps.bsky.social
Scroll through for the oxbow lake map changes example! And a great example of how survey dates affect the look of some of the maps. All of us who’ve studied any sort of geography love these features ❤️

Thanks to Ifan Shepherd and Steve Chilton from Middlesex University

#carto2025 #ordnancesurvey
September 4, 2025 at 10:57 AM
maps.sabre-roads.org.uk
Today sees some more improvements to SABRE Maps - we've updated and improved the georeferencing on our 1969 #OrdnanceSurvey One Inch maps, so that they appear even more accurately in their right places. buff.ly/p0P5IxD
Ordnance Survey OS map extract showing the Dartford Tunnel in 1969
August 21, 2025 at 5:03 PM
maps.sabre-roads.org.uk
#OrdnanceSurvey #map covers of the 1920s and 1930s are an utter work of art; and just as worth preserving as the contents inside.
August 20, 2025 at 9:01 AM
maps.sabre-roads.org.uk
So, what do we have for this week's #MapMonday? Well, the next batch of 15 maps from the #OrdnanceSurvey One Inch Popular Edition, adding sheets revised in 1936 to our already large collection. buff.ly/3TyUjFi
OS map extract from the 1936 Popular Edition sheet covering Leicester, showing the city as it was then.
August 18, 2025 at 5:05 PM
sarah-drew.com
I bring you Ellis Martin, the #OrdnanceSurvey #map cover artist 1919-1940.
So successful were his designs that the Ordnance Survey maps out-sold the competition, appealing to the (comparatively) new markets of walkers, cyclists, motorists and tourists.
I do like a nice bit of commercial art.
Ordnance Survey one inch Fifth Edition, Ellis Martin, 1933 for Reading & Newbury. Red background, buff foreground; map image shows a young man, with rolled up sleeves & a backpack, sitting at the top of a hill. In the distance can be seen a railway bridge, a town & church spire, distant hills and the sea. Image from Wikipedia & in the public domain. Ordnance Survey hiker, 1 inch to 1 mile, 1932, Ellis Martin. Forest of Bowland Less stylised than the Reading map, the image takes up more of the map cover and is now fully coloured. Country Life wrote of it in 1969 "The picture contains six sensible people; one young hiker, three cyclists and the two locals standing outside a pub. The trippers (from the bus) are kicking it up inside. This cover represents the high art of map selling. It has four targets, walkers, cyclists, motorists and tourists en masse." Image from Wikipedia & in the public domain.
August 18, 2025 at 2:32 PM