If you're heading for Britain's hills and mountains, there's simply no better companion than OS Maps – an app that puts all ...

OS has suggested the paper versions of its maps are in decline as users replace them with its smartphone application - Sam Benard For much of its 233-year history, the Ordnance Survey has been ...

Sales of paper Ordnance Survey (OS) maps are enjoying a renaissance in the UK as “digital detoxes” become increasingly popular as a way to escape life behind a screen. The national mapping agency ...

OS mapping data to be released to developers... The Ordnance Survey (OS) is opening up some of its secret code to allow software developers to create Google Maps-style mash-ups. Dubbed OpenSpace, the ...

As previously teased, Google Maps for Wear OS now supports turn-by-turn navigation without needing a paired phone for LTE watch owners. Update 1/11: Following last week’s announcement, Google Maps for ...

Following a closed alpha launch on 14 December, Ordnance Survey has completed testing of its OS OpenSpace API. It is now available for developers to mash up their own applications using the UK ...

Wear OS apps are pretty rough for the most part. Personally, I rarely use any of them at all. In recent weeks, though, the Google Maps app for Wear OS has been broken for many users, and that’s ...

OS maps show physical and human features as symbols. This makes the maps easier to read. Each OS map has a key to show what the symbols mean. Large-scale maps - 1:1,250, 1:2,500 and 1:10,000. Features ...

Google Maps and Google Keep dropped support for Wear OS 2. The app was no longer reachable when viewing the Play Store from a Wear OS 2 smartwatch. Google Maps is still operational on devices that ...

Britain's Ordnance Survey is planning to roll out a new colour palette for its maps which enables those with colour blindness to use them. Colour blindness, or colour vision deficiency (CVD), affects ...

Samsung breathed a new life into Wear OS last year when it launched the Galaxy Watch 4 series with the Google smartwatch platform, switching from its in-house Tizen OS. There are now three times as ...