{"id":1786468,"date":"2018-10-18T10:30:01","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T14:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1786468"},"modified":"2018-10-17T18:12:28","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T22:12:28","slug":"the-bbc-on-the-ordnance-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/10\/the-bbc-on-the-ordnance-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"The BBC on the Ordnance Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speaking of the Ordnance Survey, here’s a potted history of the OS<\/a> from the BBC’s Bethan Bell. The definitive history, of course, is Rachel Hewitt’s\u00a0Map of a Nation<\/em><\/a> (2010), which I reviewed in 2012<\/a>, but it only covers the first century or so. Bell’s piece is full of factoids\u2014scattershot, random access\u2014from both the 19th and 20th centuries. [A-Z Maps<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Speaking of the Ordnance Survey, here’s a potted history of the OS from the BBC’s Bethan Bell. The definitive history, of course, is Rachel Hewitt’s\u00a0Map of a Nation (2010), which I reviewed in 2012, but… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[88],"class_list":["post-1786468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-surveying","tag-ordnance-survey","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1814126,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2023\/04\/the-economists-interactive-history-of-the-ordnance-survey\/","url_meta":{"origin":1786468,"position":0},"title":"The Economist’s Interactive History of the Ordnance Survey","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"24 April 2023","format":"link","excerpt":"The Economist looks at the history of the Ordnance Survey in an interactive feature that shows the progress of the first 19th-century maps across Great Britain. 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Concomitant with the\u00a0Survey's map of Mars was a competition to design a map symbol to represent landing sites. The winner has been announced: the OS will use Paul Marsh's symbol, which incorporates the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Astronomy"","block_context":{"text":"Astronomy","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/astronomy\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"mars-symbol","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/mars-symbol-1024x341.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/mars-symbol-1024x341.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/mars-symbol-1024x341.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/mars-symbol-1024x341.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":2789,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/09\/the-cultural-impact-of-the-irish-ordnance-survey\/","url_meta":{"origin":1786468,"position":5},"title":"The Cultural Impact of the Irish Ordnance Survey","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"7 September 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"C\u00f3il\u00edn Parsons is the author of\u00a0The Ordnance Survey and Modern Irish Literature (Oxford University Press, June 2016; Amazon, iBooks), which links the Ordnance Survey of Ireland to the origins of literary modernism in Ireland. 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