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11 October 2007
Ordnance Survey appoints new Director of Information Systems
Great Britain's national mapping agency, Ordnance Survey, has appointed Bob Goodrich as its new Director of Information Systems (IS).
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10 October 2007
Local school receives welcome boost from staff at Ordnance Survey
Members of staff from Ordnance Survey have given up their free time to help create a ‘healthy growing zone’ garden for children at The Cedar School, Southampton.
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10 October 2007
Severe floods prompt leading insurers to gauge the power of geography
Representatives from some of Britain’s leading insurers were given an insight into the power of Ordnance Survey information at a special event focusing on flood risk.
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10 October 2007
Ordnance Survey appoints insurance sector manager
A leading insurance expert has joined Ordnance Survey to help promote the benefits of geographic information to the industry.
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05 October 2007
OS MasterMap now at every local authority in Scotland and Wales
All of Scotland and Wales' 54 local authorities have now taken up the world’s most detailed and intelligent geographic database, Ordnance Survey’s OS MasterMap Topography Layer.
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03 October 2007
Schoolchildren 'dig it' thanks to Time Team and Ordnance Survey
A dozen schoolchildren from across Britain, who won a competition run by Ordnance Survey, spent the day with Channel 4’s Time Team to help discover the remains of a Roman villa.
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