{"id":1099,"date":"2010-04-03T04:01:23","date_gmt":"2010-04-03T04:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=1099"},"modified":"2010-04-03T04:01:23","modified_gmt":"2010-04-03T04:01:23","slug":"maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=1099","title":{"rendered":"Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:251,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260411224822\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 11:26:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 11:26:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:252,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/openspace.ordnancesurvey.co.uk\\\/openspace\\\/index.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\">On of the most useful skills a person can gain from Scouting is the ability to read and use maps. This skill is not only used when hiking, for example, but when going to a new place in the car. In fact, if I use a sat-nav to take me to a new place, I always like to check on the map before hand to see where I\u2019m going.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Maps in the UK are produced in the UK by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Ordinance Survey<\/a> and they have a wide range of accurate maps available at various scales. One thing they\u2019ve recently announced is their <a href=\"http:\/\/openspace.ordnancesurvey.co.uk\/openspace\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">OS Open Space project<\/a>. This allows people to use the OS map data to include on their websites or create their own application using map data.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">What this means in practice terms is that I can now put OS map information on my Group\u2019s website, for example, to show where a camp site is.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">This looks to be an interesting use of mapping information and it will be fascinating to see what people come up with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On of the most useful skills a person can gain from Scouting is the ability to read and use maps. This skill is not only used when hiking, for example, but when going to a new place in the car. 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