Here at Live for the Outdoors, we love maps. But we’ll admit one dark little secret: they can make idiots of anyone. Go on, admit it. Even if you’ve used and loved Ordnance Survey mapping for years or ...

Following the big update that added public transit directions last month, Google Maps has tweaked its Wear OS Tile to provide quick access to the map. Originally, the Google Maps Tile featured a ...

Kevin Rushby explores the Berwyn range’s contours and landmarks from the comfort of his home – finishing the hike with a well deserved, but fantasy, pint The method is simple: I examine my pile of ...

The British mapping agency Ordnance Survey has created a map of the Martian surface using precision NASA data — and it's beautiful. PHOTOS: Tour 'The Martian' Movie Set… On Mars As an avid hiker when ...

Some coastal erosion features will not appear on an OS map. Features like blowholes are often too small to be easily identified at this scale. Here are some examples of erosional features easily ...

A frustratingly flawed device that doesn’t merit its £400 price tag and provides little incentive for choosing it over a Garmin Poor web-based user interfaces; multiple accounts needed for different ...

Following last week’s quiet release of Find Hub for Wear OS, Google is rolling out support for map layers on Android.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It’s been a year of discovering the travel delights on your own doorstep, or not far from it. For me, living in ...

Despite its title, Map of a Nation is not a "biography of the Ordnance Survey". Rather, its sphere of interest is confined to British cartography 1747-1846. Moreover, despite its meticulous ...