Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSI; Irish: Suirbhéireacht Ordanáis na hÉireann) is the mapping agency in the Republic of Ireland.
Together with the Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland, it is the post-1922 successor to the Irish Division of the United Kindom Ordnance Survey, originally established in 1824 along similar lines to the Ordnance Survey in Great Britain to provide a highly detailed (1:10560, 6 inches to 1 Mile) survey of the whole island of Ireland. Image produced from the Ordnance Survey Get-a-map service. ... Mid-19th century tool for converting between different standards of the inch An inch is an Imperial unit of length. ... A mile is any of several units of distance, or, in physics terminology, of length. ...
Between 1825-45, teams of surveyors, led by officers of the Royal Engineers and men from the ranks of the Royal Sappers and Miners, traversed Ireland, thereby creating an unique record of a landscape undergoing rapid transformation. These beautiful 6" maps portrayed the country to a degree of detail never attempted before. They maps and surveying were executed to a very high degree of engineering excellence.
This "mapping scheme" provided numerous opportunities for employment to the native Irish population, both as skilled/semi-skilled fieldwork labourers and as clerks in the subsidiary Memoir project that was designed to complement the maps by providing hard data on the social and productive worth of the country.
The Irish national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Ireland. ... Northern Ireland is one of four constituent parts of the United Kingdom. ...
Although they share the name OrdnanceSurvey they are, in fact, three separate organisations each responsible to their own governments.
OrdnanceSurvey has created this site to make mapping come alive for kids but also help them with their homework, it is a fully interactive mapping experience with animations, games and quizzes.
OrdnanceSurvey is Great Britain's national mapping agency, providing the most accurate and up-to-date geographic data, relied on by government, business and the public.
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