All of a Twitter about mapping
Please note our surveyors tweeting was over a two week period and the map and accounts are no longer active.Have you ever wondered what we get up to at Ordnance Survey on a daily basis?Maybe you’ve seen someone in a hi-vis jacket with Ordnance Survey written on it and some odd-looking equipment walking around your local area and wondered what’s going on.Well now's your chance to get an insiders view. From today, a selection of our surveyors, field staff and technical experts will be tweeting live as the update the nation's mapping.We make around 5000 changes a day to the digital mastermap of Great Britain, so there's a lot going on - from the farthest reaches of Scotland and the Welsh peaks, to inner city London.As the national mapping agency for Great Britain we know a lot of you, be it from government, the business world or as individuals, rely on our work to provide you with accurate and up-to-date information.So we hope this will be a chance to take a look at how we do that, through the eyes of the people doing the work all around the country.And, of course feel free to ask them questions about their work, they'll be keen to answer them and I promise they don't bite!You can follow our intrepid team on Twitter and you can also see where they are and what they’re up to on our OS OpenSpace map, linked to their geo-enabled tweets.Click to view our tweeters on an interactive map
You can see them on Twitter itself under these account names, or if you’re signed into Twitter you can following this list. Alternatively, keep an eye on the hashtage #OSatwork:
@OS_Kimberley – working in the Cambridge area
@OS_Ashleigh – surveyor in south west Wales
@OS_learning – learning and development consultant at head office
@OS_Dom – surveyor in the Cotswolds area
@OS_matt – surveyor in the Norfolk area
@OS_Doug – surveyor in Moray and north Aberdeenshire
@OS_Biggles – member of our Flying Unit, based in Blackpool
@OS_mickgwyn – surveyor in north Wales
@OS_Jez – surveyor in the Norfolk area
@OS_markmyworlds – surveyor in the West Midlands
@OS_Matthew – quality assurance expert on imagery and height data at head office
@OSRemoteSensing – technician working with aerial imagery in our Remote Sensing team at head office
@OS_phil – surveyor in the London area
@OS_mickup – surveyor in north Oxfordshire
@OS_georgeqa – quality assurance on imagery data expert at head office
@OS__David – surveyor in Perth and Kinross
You can also follow us on @OrdnanceSurvey and @OSLeisure – but we’re not on the map as we don’t have a GPS signal on our desktop PCs I’m afraid! Check out what we’re all up to and let me know what you think.
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Great will be keeping an eye – BUT if YOU want to know what it was like 40 years ago to be an Ordnance Surveyor then I have published last month The Ramblings of a Twenty Five Inch Man http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ramblings-Twenty-Five-Inch-ebook/dp/B005L1DF3C/ref%3dsr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1316601206&sr=1-1
Stalked by a panther, shot at, held captive by a madman with a machete, shelled, wrestled to the ground by the SAS, Russian Spies just for a start! Set in Southampton, Shropshire, Mid Wales and the Brecon Beacons
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