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28 October 2009
Put your fireworks on the map this Bonfire Night
Finding a good firework display to celebrate Bonfire Night, complete with toffee apples and Catherine wheels, isn’t always the easiest exercise, let alone one that doesn’t cost the earth.
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23 October 2009
Awards programme offers £21,000 for best geography ideas
GeoVation, an online initiative aiming to promote innovation with geography, has launched an awards programme with a prize fund of £21,000 available to develop the best entries.
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12 October 2009
Map of the future revealed
An incredible three-dimensional map made from 700 million individual points of light is the latest step in a geography revolution unfolding on the south coast.
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09 October 2009
First shared data centre – a good deal all round
Ordnance Survey and Land Registry have announced a significant data centre shared service agreement, the first of its type for central government.
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08 October 2009
Maps for the colour-blind are a real eye opener
For many people map reading can be a struggle, but for the hundreds of thousands that are colour-blind it can be an even more arduous experience.
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07 October 2009
New users harness the power of OS OpenSpace
Delegates at last month's AGI (Association for Geographic Information) conference had the chance to get hands-on experience of Ordnance Survey's enhanced, free service OS OpenSpace.
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06 October 2009
Winners spend day with Time Team
Eight lucky schoolchildren spent the day unearthing archaeological remains with Channel 4’s Time Team after winning a competition run by national mapping agency, Ordnance Survey.
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