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Custom OS Maps - Save 20 Per-Cent

Get a whopping reduction on the Ordnance Survey's bespoke maps for the rest of 2009.


Posted: 17 November 2009
by Jon

Between now and the end of 2009 you can get 20% off the price of one of the Ordnance Survey's excellent custom OS Select maps from the OS's own web site.

OS Select is a made-to-order-mapping service that allows you to order a map in either 1:25,000 or 1:50,000 scale centred on a pont of your choosing. That could be your home, a particular town, your favourite walk or just a neat way of optimising the coverage of your map sheet - no more heading off the edge of the world thanks to arbitrary sheet boundaries. Ooops.... check out the ad.


You can even customise the cover to suit with 21 cover images and customisable text allowing you to personalise your map even further.

The maps are dead easy to order, just pop over to  leisure.ordnancesurvey.co.uk and follow the directions on the page. Once you've ordered your map, it'll be printed off just for you and you can even decide whether you want it folded or rolled and in English or Welsh.

OS Select is available in either OS Explorer 1:25 000 scale (£16.99) or OS Landranger 1:50 000 scale (£15.99) but less 20% for the rest of 2009.

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News today that much OS data is to be available free of charge - see http://nds.coi.gov.uk/Content/detail.aspx?NewsAreaId=2&ReleaseID=408663&SubjectId=15&DepartmentMode=true

Posted: 17/11/2009 at 16:07

> News today that much OS data is to be available free of charge

I'll wait and see.  That sounds like a 'WIBNIF' to me, not an explicit statement of policy. There's also not enough detail of exactly what mapping they have an inkling to free up; what is 'Mid-scale digital mapping', for instance:  1:50k, 1:25k?

There are also competing factions within Government; one lot want OS data made freely available, others want it farmed out completely to private enterprise.

I know certain websites hitting their mapping tile quotas for OS 1:50k data are being 'encouraged' by the OS to go commercial, with a fee-paying system, rather than free, but tile-count limited as it currently is.


Posted: 17/11/2009 at 18:51

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