Ordnance Survey

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Ordnance Survey topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Research and Products as prominent areas in the source structure around Ordnance Survey.

Related topics: 174
Source areas: 6
Connected nodes: 180
Extracted relationships: 207
Related term clusters: 45
Bridge connections: 180

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

History · 101 topics

Map range · 25 topics

Cartography and geodesy · 15 topics

Overview · 15 topics

Data access · 12 topics

Research · 6 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Headquarters: Southampton, England, UK
Agency executive: Nick Bolton, CEO
Employees: 1,244
Formed: 1791; 235 years ago (1791)
Jurisdiction: Great Britain[a]
Minister responsible: Liz Kendall, Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology

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Ordnance Survey

8National mapping agency · Artillery · Surveying

5Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy · Chief Executive · Slow Ways

7Royal Engineers · Principal Triangulation of Great Britain · Board of Ordnance

10Prince William, Duke of Cumberland · Scottish Highlands · Jacobitism

13Ordnance Survey Ireland · Tithe Act 1836 · 6 & 7 Will. 4

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

History

Cartography and geodesy

Research

Data access

For the semantics nerds

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Advanced semantic analysis

How Ordnance Survey connects Entity context

The extracted context around Ordnance Survey shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Ordnance Survey → Among Watson's, Board, British, British Army, British Library, Carluke, Cumberland, Cumberland's Map, Defence, Duke, England, French, General, Great Britain, Highlands, Jacobite, John Manson, King George II, Lieutenant-Colonel David Watson, Lord Lovat Another extracted example is Ordnance Survey → County Series, Director General, Domesday Book, England, Following, Gough Map, Great Britain, Ireland, London, Major-General Sir Henry James, Meanwhile, Official, Ordnance Survey Act, Southampton, Tithe Act, Tower, Vict, Wales. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Top relations

related to Origins · 36

Ordnance Survey → Among Watson's, Board, British, British Army, British Library, Carluke, Cumberland, Cumberland's Map, Defence, Duke, England, French, General, Great Britain, Highlands, Jacobite, John Manson, King George II, Lieutenant-Colonel David Watson, Lord Lovat

related to Great Britain "County Series" · 18

Ordnance Survey → County Series, Director General, Domesday Book, England, Following, Gough Map, Great Britain, Ireland, London, Major-General Sir Henry James, Meanwhile, Official, Ordnance Survey Act, Southampton, Tithe Act, Tower, Vict, Wales

related to 21st century · 17

Ordnance Survey → Adanac Park, BT, Butler, Dennis, Explorer House, February, GISs, In April, Maybush, October, OS, OS Explorer, OS Landranger, Prince Philip, Southampton, Tanner, The Frome-based

related to Derivative and licensed products · 13

Ordnance Survey → Bing Maps, Cassini, CD/DVD, GPS-aware, One, OS, OS Landranger, PC, PC/smartphone, Philip's, Several, Thus, UK

related to Historical material · 13

Ordnance Survey → All British, Britain, Crown Copyright, Great Britain, GroundSure, Ireland, Irish Road Enthusiasts, Landmark, New Popular Edition, SABRE, Scotland, Society, The National Library

related to 20th century · 12

Ordnance Survey → Antwerp, Belgium, Belgium1, Brussels, During World War, During World War II, France, France1, German Army, Italy1, Netherlands, South Africa1

related to City and town mapping, 19th and early 20th century · 11

Ordnance Survey → GB1900, Great Britain, HM Land Registry, Ireland, Irish, London, London County Council, OS, OS's, Placenames, Treasury

related to OS MasterMap · 11

Ordnance Survey → Every, Great Britain, In September, National Grid, November, OS MasterMap, The Ordnance Survey's, TOID, TOIDs, TOpographical IDentifier, Typically

related to Data access · 10

Ordnance Survey → Committee, Enquiry, Environment, Geographic Information, Handling, Mandate Communications, Roger Chorley, Secretary, State, UK

related to Cartography and geodesy · 8

Ordnance Survey → Global Navigation Satellite System, GNSS, Great Britain, Modern Ordnance Survey, OS Net, The Ordnance Survey, The Ordnance Survey's, UK-wide

Important terminology

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Important terminology

survey ordnance maps os mapping map data britain great scale series also county used products areas large-scale mastermap made ireland

Ordnance Survey relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 207 structured relationships around Ordnance Survey. Examples in this analysis include Ordnance Survey → Agency executive → Nick Bolton, CEO and Ordnance Survey → Employees → 1,244. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

Subject	Predicate	Object	Confidence	Src
Ordnance Survey	Agency executive	Nick Bolton, CEO	1.00	infobox
Ordnance Survey	Employees	1,244	1.00	infobox
Ordnance Survey	Formed	1791; 235 years ago (1791)	1.00	infobox
Ordnance Survey	Headquarters	Southampton, England, UK	1.00	infobox
Ordnance Survey	Jurisdiction	Great Britain[a]	1.00	infobox
Ordnance Survey	Minister responsible	Liz Kendall, Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology	1.00	infobox
Ordnance Survey	Parent agency	Department for Science, Innovation and Technology	1.00	infobox
Ordnance Survey	Website	ordnancesurvey.co.uk	1.00	infobox
Simon Fraser	instance of	Duke of Cumberland realised that the British Army did not have a good map of the Scottish Highlands to locate Jacobite dissenters	0.80	text
11th Lord Lovat so that they could be put on trial	instance of	Duke of Cumberland realised that the British Army did not have a good map of the Scottish Highlands to locate Jacobite dissenters	0.80	text
dockyards	instance of	in a variety of large scales that included details of military significance	0.80	text
naval installations	instance of	in a variety of large scales that included details of military significance	0.80	text

Related concept clusters Related term clusters

The concept neighborhoods around Ordnance Survey bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Survey, Maps and Britain. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

Ordnance Survey
- Survey
- Maps
- Britain
- Great
- Data
- Mapping
- Os
- Map
- Series
- Large-scale
- Free
- National
public data group
- Mastermap
- Os
- Uk
- Free
- Ordnance
- Products
- Survey
- Map
- Information
- Mapping
- Made
- Maps
open data in the united kingdom
- Mastermap
- Os
- Uk
- Free
- Ordnance
- Products
- Survey
- Map
- Information
- Mapping
- Made
- Maps
linked data
- Mastermap
- Os
- Uk
- Free
- Ordnance
- Products
- Survey
- Map
- Information
- Mapping
- Made
- Maps
data access
- Mastermap
- Os
- Uk
- Free
- Ordnance
- Products
- Survey
- Map
- Information
- Mapping
- Made
- Maps
ordnance survey
- Survey
- Maps
- Britain
- Great
- Data
- Mapping
- Os
- Map
- Ireland
- Series
- Large-scale
- Free
national mapping agency
- Great
- Britain
- Large-scale
- Mile
- Os
- Scale
- Free
- Mapping
- National
- Maps
- Ordnance
- Survey
scale (map)
- British
- Maps
- Os
- County
- England
- Data
- Also
- Ordnance
- Scale
- Many
- Survey
- Mastermap

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Ordnance Survey, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Ordnance Survey with History. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3

Ordnance Survey — History · splits 79 ⟂ 102

Ordnance Survey — Map range · splits 155 ⟂ 26

Ordnance Survey — Overview · splits 165 ⟂ 16

Ordnance Survey — Cartography and geodesy · splits 165 ⟂ 16

Ordnance Survey — Data access · splits 168 ⟂ 13

Ordnance Survey — Research · splits 174 ⟂ 7

Map overview Semantic statistics

Ordnance Survey

Nodes181

Edges180

Triples207

Avg. degree1.99

Density0.01105

Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Ordnance Survey to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Research & Products, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Ordnance Survey · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

Ordnance Survey: History, Research & Products

Ordnance Survey topic overview

What this topic covers Research coverage

Key facts & relationships

Start with your topic. Discover where to go next.

Questions to explore

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Overview

History

Map range

Cartography and geodesy

Research

Data access

For the semantics nerds

Advanced semantic analysis

How Ordnance Survey connects Entity context

Ordnance Survey

Top relations

Important terminology

Important terminology

Ordnance Survey relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

Related concept clusters Related term clusters

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

Map overview Semantic statistics

Ordnance Survey

Source & methodology