{"id":1814126,"date":"2023-04-24T06:33:02","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T10:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1814126"},"modified":"2023-04-23T20:04:15","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T00:04:15","slug":"the-economists-interactive-history-of-the-ordnance-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2023\/04\/the-economists-interactive-history-of-the-ordnance-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economist&#8217;s Interactive History of the Ordnance Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/interactive\/britain\/2023\/04\/06\/how-intrepid-victorian-surveyors-mapped-the-length-and-breadth-of-britain\"><em>The Economist<\/em> looks at the history of the Ordnance Survey<\/a> in an interactive feature that shows the progress of the first 19th-century maps across Great Britain. Of course the definitive history of the Survey\u2019s first century, as the <em>Economist<\/em> article readily allows, is Rachel Hewitt\u2019s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/o\/ASIN\/1847082548\/maproom-20\">Map of a Nation<\/a><\/em> (2010), which I reviewed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2012\/05\/map-of-a-nation\/\">here<\/a>. [<a href=\"https:\/\/googlemapsmania.blogspot.com\/2023\/04\/the-history-of-ordnance-survey.html\">Maps Mania<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. Of course the definitive history of the Survey\u2019s first&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2023\/04\/the-economists-interactive-history-of-the-ordnance-survey\/\">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":[10],"tags":[88,71],"class_list":["post-1814126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-antique-maps","tag-ordnance-survey","tag-uk","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1786468,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/10\/the-bbc-on-the-ordnance-survey\/","url_meta":{"origin":1814126,"position":0},"title":"The BBC on the Ordnance Survey","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"18 October 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"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 it only covers the first century or so. Bell's piece is full of factoids\u2014scattershot, random\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Surveying&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Surveying","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/surveying\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1788837,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/05\/censorship-and-the-ordnance-survey\/","url_meta":{"origin":1814126,"position":1},"title":"Censorship and the Ordnance Survey","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"25 May 2020","format":"link","excerpt":"A blog post from the National Library of Wales explores how sensitive military and industrial sites were omitted from the published versions of Ordnance Survey maps. The removal of military installations from OS maps was at its height in the 19th century and the World Wars, but throughout the Cold\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Censorship&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Censorship","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/censorship\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5319,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2012\/05\/map-of-a-nation\/","url_meta":{"origin":1814126,"position":2},"title":"Map of a Nation","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"23 May 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"When Rachel Hewitt\u2019s Map of a Nation was published in the U.K. in 2010, I despaired of ever being able to lay hands on a copy easily. A book documenting the first century or so of the history of the Ordnance Survey, Britain\u2019s national map-making body, is not likely to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Book Reviews&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Book Reviews","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/book-reviews\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/map-of-a-nation-196x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1786628,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/11\/the-first-ordnance-survey-map\/","url_meta":{"origin":1814126,"position":3},"title":"The First Ordnance Survey Map","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"9 November 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"The first map produced by the Ordnance Survey, their blog reminds us, was this map of Kent. Published in 1801 at the scale of two inches to one mile (1:31,680), it took three years to complete; the OS started in Kent over fears of a French invasion. As such, the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Antique Maps&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Antique Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/antique-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/os-kent-1801-1024x707.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/os-kent-1801-1024x707.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/os-kent-1801-1024x707.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/os-kent-1801-1024x707.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":876,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/02\/the-ordnance-survey-maps-mars\/","url_meta":{"origin":1814126,"position":4},"title":"The Ordnance Survey Maps Mars","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"15 February 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"The Ordnance Survey has\u00a0created a map of Mars. \"The one-off Ordnance Survey Mars map, created using NASA open data and made to a 1:4,000,000 scale, is\u00a0made to see if our style of mapping has potential for future Mars missions.\"\u00a0It looks very much like a topographic map of Mars might; the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Astronomy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Astronomy","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/astronomy\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"os-mars-full","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/os-mars-full-1024x878.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/os-mars-full-1024x878.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/os-mars-full-1024x878.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/os-mars-full-1024x878.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1789262,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/09\/dan-bell-the-ordnance-survey-and-fantasy-maps\/","url_meta":{"origin":1814126,"position":5},"title":"Dan Bell, the Ordnance Survey, and Fantasy Maps","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"10 September 2020","format":"link","excerpt":"Dan Bell, whose \u201cTolkien-inspired\u201d maps of real-world places have been a thing for a while now, makes an appearance on the Ordnance Survey\u2019s blog to demonstrate\u00a0how he uses OS maps in his creative process. Previously: Dan Bell\u2019s \u2018Tolkien-Style\u2019 Maps of the Lake District; Maps Middle-earth Style: By Hand and by\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1814126"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1814130,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814126\/revisions\/1814130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1814126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1814126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1814126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}