How Britain's Mapmakers Track Climate Change
The agency updates maps 30,000 times a day and says 12% of the UK strategic road network is in the highest flood-risk zone.
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How Britain's mapmakers track climate change
"I would argue there is no clearer way to see the impact of climate change than looking at a traditional map," Tom Gray, a utilities and transport expert for Britain's national mapping agency, told AFP. He was sitting in front of an aerial photograph of dry land projected onto a big screen at the OS headquarters in the port city of Southampton, southern England. Here, hundreds of people work to collect location data and maintain the National Ge…
Detailed maps of Britain, once used to defend the country from Napoleonic France, are now helping to monitor the consequences of climate change and prepare for its impacts. The UK's Ordnance Survey (OS) uses its vast map databases to identify areas at risk, for example...
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