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28 August 2009
Map reading “essential” for walkers this Bank Holiday weekend
With more and more people holidaying in Britain the country’s Mountain rescue teams are experiencing one of their busiest years with a rise in emergency calls from inexperienced walkers.
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26 August 2009
Council project to improve city garages wins award
Bristol City Council is the winner of an innovation award for its investigation into the best way to improve the use of council-owned garages.
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25 August 2009
NHS Lothian signs deal with Ordnance Survey
NHS Lothian is the latest organisation to add its name to the new One Scotland Mapping Agreement, giving it access to a huge range of Ordnance Survey mapping data to aid the delivery of patient services.
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21 August 2009
Ordnance Survey puts The Black Country on the map
The first ever Ordnance Survey maps to include ‘The Black Country’ have been rolling off the presses today (21 August) at the mapping agency’s Southampton head office.
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21 August 2009
User milestone for addressing data in utility sector
There are now 100,000 individual users of Ordnance Survey’s most advanced digital addressing data in the utility sector, according to the national mapping agency.
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