Ordnance Survey

基本解釋

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(jīng)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(biāo)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(shù)據(jù)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(shù)據(jù)目前都無法免費用於商業(yè)目的，這一點在企業(yè)家和社會活動家中飽受詬病，怨聲載道。