A Very British Map: The Ordnance Survey Story
- Episode aired Sep 9, 2015
A programme looking at the history of the Ordnance Survey and the challenges it faces today.A programme looking at the history of the Ordnance Survey and the challenges it faces today.A programme looking at the history of the Ordnance Survey and the challenges it faces today.
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- Self - Queen Mary University of London
- (as Prof Jerry Brotton)
- Self - University of Exeter
- (as Dr Richard Oliver)
- Self - Map Historian
- (as Dr Yolande Hodgson)
Storyline
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- Quotes
Rachel Hewitt: The Ordnance Survey is absolutely a great British success story, and it forms a model for many national mapping agencies around the world. Certainly the Ordnance Survey makes Britain pretty much the leading country in the world in terms of possessing accurate geographical information about itself.
Mike Parker: In some ways, the Ordnance Survey is a perfect mirror of Britain, at its best and its worst. At its best - entrepreneurial, go-getting, quietly ambitious for the country, beautiful fusion of art and science. And then it is, as an organisation, and always has been, rather stuffy, rather pompous, rather self-important. Britain in a nutshell.
Nicholas Crane: I cannot possibly imagine this country functioning without Ordnance Survey maps.
- Crazy creditsThe opening title sequence shows an Ordnance Survey map, with the wording of the episode title "A Very British Map: The Ordnance Survey Story" overlaid on closely-spaced contour lines as if it were the name of a hill or mountain.
However there was one problem: I was irritated by the narrator's constant mispronunciation of the word "ordnance": she kept saying "ordanance".
- grantashton
- Jul 28, 2017