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 placeIn 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…