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Ordnance Survey – Great Britain's national mapping agency

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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
 

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