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Which is exactly how they got their name: the Ordnance Survey was the organisation responsible for generating accurate maps for the purposes of planning and exe
by abstractbeliefs 6y ago
Which is exactly how they got their name: the Ordnance Survey was the organisation responsible for generating accurate maps for the purposes of planning and executing artillery shoots.
- titzer 6y agoThat actually makes more sense than "Ordinance Survey" :)
- iudqnolq 6y agoIt could be the national government's legally authoritative survey :)
- KineticLensman 6y agoTo be precise, their original goal [0] was to map Scotland in the aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1745, to to help the crown to subjugate the clans (as opposed to just lobbing arty fire at them). [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordnance_Survey#Origins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordnance_Survey#Origins