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The Guardian view on Ordnance Survey maps: still a superior way to navigate the landscape | Editorial
The 225th anniversary of the organisation’s first publication is an opportunity to celebrate its unique contribution to our sense of place In his one-paragraph short story, On Exactitude in Science, Jorge Luis Borges imagines an empire in which the level of cartographical ambition is so high that a map is made on a one-to-one scale with the imperial territory. The quest for perfect accuracy doesn’t end well. But the earliest map-makers for Ordnance Survey, which this week marked the 225th anniversary of its first publication, might have empathised with the obsessive dedication. The 1801 OS map
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