Ordnance Survey

基本解释

Though she spent much of the time with her nose in one-inch Ordnance Survey maps, tracking the contour lines, she found them a “coarse instrument” for her purpose.
雖然她皓首窮經地埋首於英國四十萬分之一比例尺的全國地形測量地圖，追尋每一條等高線，對她的研究目標來說，她仍覺得這份地圖算是「粗糙的工具」。
Ordnance Survey, the official British mapping agency, has made its first ever map of another planet, using NASA data to chart a huge expanse of the surface of Mars.
【史上第一張給普通人看的火星地圖】英國地形測量侷採用NASA的數據繪制出一張廣濶的火星地表圖，這是他們第一次制作外星地圖。
In Britain postcodes and Ordnance Survey map data at present cannot be freely used for commercial purposes—a source of loud complaints from businesses and activists.
在英國，郵政編碼和陸軍測量侷的地圖數據目前都無法免費用於商業目的，這一點在企業家和社會活動家中飽受詬病，怨聲載道。