Whois & Analysis for os.uk

Ordnance Survey (OS) is a non-ministerial government department which acts as the national mapping agency for Great Britain and is one of the world's largest producers of maps.

Since 1 April 2015 it has operated as Ordnance Survey Ltd, a government-owned company, 100% in public ownership.

The Ordnance Survey Board remain accountable to the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.

It is also a member of the Public Data Group.

A geographic information system (or GIS) is a system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present spatial or geographic data.

The acronym GIS is sometimes used for geographic information science (GIScience) to refer to the academic discipline that studies geographic information systems and is a large domain within the broader academic discipline of geoinformatics.

What goes beyond a GIS is a spatial data infrastructure, a concept that has no such restrictive boundaries.

The world is the planet Earth and all life upon it, including human civilization.

In a philosophical context, the world is the whole of the physical Universe, or an ontological world.

In a theological context, the world is the material or the profane sphere, as opposed to the celestial, spiritual, transcendent or sacred.

The "end of the world" refers to scenarios of the final end of human history, often in religious contexts.

Printing is a process for reproducing text and images using a master form or template.

The earliest examples include Cylinder seals and other objects such as the Cyrus Cylinder and the Cylinders of Nabonidus.

The earliest known form of woodblock printing came from China dating to before 220 A.D.

Later developments in printing include the movable type, first developed by Bi Sheng in China around 1040 AD.

Johannes Gutenberg introduced mechanical movable type printing to Europe in the 15th century.

His printing press played a key role in the development of the Renaissance, Reformation, the Age of Enlightenment, and the scientific revolution and laid the material basis for the modern knowledge-based economy and the spread of learning to the masses.