{"id":876,"date":"2016-02-15T08:46:35","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T13:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=876"},"modified":"2016-02-15T08:46:35","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T13:46:35","slug":"the-ordnance-survey-maps-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/02\/the-ordnance-survey-maps-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ordnance Survey Maps Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Ordnance Survey has\u00a0created a map of Mars<\/a>. “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 reduced version<\/a> is a bit more screen-friendly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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… 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":[3],"tags":[295,88,287],"class_list":["post-876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-astronomy","tag-mars","tag-ordnance-survey","tag-topo-maps","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2153,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/06\/an-ordnance-survey-roundup\/","url_meta":{"origin":876,"position":0},"title":"An Ordnance Survey Roundup","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"6 June 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"Scottish newspaper\u00a0The Courier\u00a0has a somewhat belated piece on the 80th anniversary of the Ordnance Survey's trig pillars. Concomitant with the\u00a0Survey's map of Mars was a competition to design a map symbol to represent landing sites. 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Of course the definitive history of the Survey\u2019s first century, as the Economist article readily allows, is Rachel Hewitt\u2019s Map of a Nation (2010),\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Antique Maps"","block_context":{"text":"Antique Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/antique-maps\/"},"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\/876","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=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":880,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions\/880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}