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23 January 2012
GeoPlace wins Best Project Delivery at UK Public Sector Digital Awards
GeoPlace is honoured to be one of two winners of the Best Project Delivery category at the 2011 UK Public Sector Digital Awards for the development and delivery of the National Address Gazetteer Database. GeoPlace was presented the award alongside Surrey County Council for their separate e-safeguarding project.
7 December 2011
South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue demands (and gets) the best from Ordnance Survey
South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue (SYFR) has become the first public sector customer of a ground-breaking new ‘on-demand’ service from Ordnance Survey. The OS OnDemand Web Map Tile Service (WMTS-like) will enable SYFR to utilise a single web based view of their geographic location data across a range of systems and platforms from fire incident data to the location of fire hydrants to improve the accessibility of its operational information.
11 November 2011
Digimap for Schools celebrates its first birthday with mystery maps
A new Cabinet Office guide encourages the ‘responder’ community to adopt the use of digital mapping and GIS mapping systems as an effective tool in contingency planning.
9 November 2011
Supporting contingency planning with Ordnance Survey mapping
A new Cabinet Office guide encourages the ‘responder’ community to adopt the use of digital mapping and GIS mapping systems as an effective tool in contingency planning.
4 November 2011
2011 National Gazetteers Exemplar Awards winners announced
On 3 November 2011 GeoPlace LLP announced the winners of the 2011 National Gazetteers Exemplar Awards. The awards recognise the outstanding achievements of local authorities, local partnerships, police forces and fire and rescue services, in the creation, maintenance and utilisation of the National Gazetteers.
10 October 
Tweeting the changing face of Britain
From today, Ordnance Survey staff across the country will be using the social networking site Twitter to provide live updates as they map the ever changing Great British landscape.
5 October 2011
Duke of Edinburgh opens new Ordnance Survey head office
Yesterday, His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh officially opened Ordnance Survey's new head office in Southampton.
30 September 2011
New addressing products now available from Ordnance Survey
The AddressBase range of products, the definitive source of spatial address and property information for England and Wales, are available from today (Friday 30 September).