Mapping for War and Peace - Ordnance Survey’s maps and the First World War
![Surveyors on a First World War battlefield. (Image: © Crown copyright)](https://history.blog.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/WW1-Surveyor-on-battlefield-image.jpg)
Far from its traditional image as the publisher of leisure maps for ramblers and cyclists exploring idyllic countryside, where the only disturbance is the rustle of a cagoule or the whirr of a freewheel, the Ordnance Survey’s origins are associated …