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Ordnance Survey – Great Britain's national mapping agency
| Material | Countries | Location |
| Airphoto prints | British Antarctic Territory | British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge |
| All other | British Empire and Commonwealth Museum | |
| Airphoto prints (second set) | All | Oxford University |
| Airphoto films | All | Mainly 'owning' governments |
| Air photo mosaics, laydowns, | All | British Empire and Commonwealth Museum |
| Arial photography technical records, film reports, negatives etc | From RAF & RN photography | RAF |
| British Antarctic Territory | British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge | |
| From contracts with national mapping agencies | The national mapping agencies concerned | |
| Satellite imagery | ||
| Maps, map library catalogue & finding aids | All | Royal Geographic Society |
| Maps – print over-runs | All | OMNI Resources |
| Manuscript maps (hand drawn originals) | All | The National Archives |
| Map reproduction materials (colour separated negatives) | All | The countries concerned |
| Map Library catalogue | Library of the Royal Geographical Society with Institute of British Geographers | |
| Survey records, computational records etc | Falkland Islands & British Antarctic Territory | British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge |
| All other | The National Archives | |
| DOS annual reports 1959–84 with small scale guide to areas of primary triangulation | Library of the Royal Geographical Society with Institute of British Geographers | |
| Books | Dowson & Sheppard collection of cadastral survey and land registration records | Cambridge University |
| All others | Various, under direction of National Archives | |
| Cine films | All | British Film Institute |
| 35mm slides of DCS/DOS activities & equipment | All | The National Archives |
| International boundary maps & Files | All | The National Archives |
| DOS staff lists, field party address lists, photograph albums | All | The National Archives |