If OS goes ahead with the ideas suggested, the new symbols could be added to OS Explorer/OS Landranger paper maps and OS Maps app.

In 2015, OS ran a competition for the public to design new symbols, which included electric car charging points. But these have not yet been implemented due to the market ‘changing at a ...

An annual subscription to OS maps costs £28.99, or you can pay £4.99 a month, which gives you access to incredibly detailed cartography at 1:25,000 scale, right across Britain, directly from ...

1 Brits struggle to read OS maps, a study has shown It comes after a study of 2,000 adults revealed a struggle to read maps - with less than half aware of what contours are telling you.

Experts have put together the test, which features questions on map symbols, scale, and how to read contours, to allow people to evaluate their skills – which can be used on paper or digital maps.