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Ordnance Survey Maps

This film, from Twig World, looks at the history of ordnance survey maps. Ordnance Survey has been creating maps for hundreds of years. How have their mapping methods changed since the first Ordnance Survey maps were made?

The key points made in the film are:

•The British Ordnance Survey team are the British government's mapping agency.
•The Ordnance Survey was founded in 1791, and early maps were created by manually measuring the land.
•Today, the Ordnance Survey team carry out aerial surveys of the landscape to produce a giant electronic map of Britain.
•Ordnance Survey maps are used by many different people, including the emergency services and ramblers.

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Subject(s)Science, Mathematics
Age11-14, 14-16
Published2010 to 2019
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Direct URLhttps://www.stem.org.uk/rx34cb

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