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Ordnance Survey is an executive agency of the United Kingdom government. It is the national mapping agency for Great Britain, and one of the world's largest producers of maps. The name reflects the original military purpose of the organization (see ordnance and surveying) in mapping Britain during the Napoleonic Wars when there was a threat of invasion from France, and its logo includes the War Department's broad arrow heraldic mark.

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The origins were in 1747, Colonel David Watson proposed a map of Scotland to help defeat the Scottish Clans after the Jacobite Uprising of 1747

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Ordnance Survey was created in 1791.

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