ordnance survey style guide for third parties

Introduction
Ordnance Survey’s corporate branding and imaging supports our overall core
message that Ordnance Survey is the national mapping agency for Great
Britain. Our aim is to increase the use of Ordnance Survey data by permitting
the exploitation of the intellectual property rights (IPR) in the data. We achieve
this through trading and licensing to a wide customer base whilst ensuring the
protection of our longer term sustainability.
Purpose of the Style Guide
The purpose of the Style Guide is to provide guidelines to Direct Customers and
Licensed Partners on the use of Ordnance Survey’s standard Copyright and
Database right acknowledgement, logos and legends.
Scope
These guidelines have been designed specifically to ensure that:
1. All of our customers are using the correct copyright and database right
acknowledgement.
2. Our Licensed Partners are using and representing our corporate logos
appropriately in their corporate materials.
3. Legends are used by Licensed Partners producing facsimile mapping from 1:25
000 Raster and 1:50 000 Raster under the Printed Products Contract.
This guide is intended for customers who have a current contract in place with
Ordnance Survey.
All other Licensed Partner logos not featured in this guide are obsolete and
should not be used in any circumstance.
About Ordnance Survey
If you wish to refer to Ordnance Survey in your corporate materials and
websites, please use the following boiler plate text.
Ordnance Survey is the recognised market leader in its field and is relied on for
its mapping expertise. Together with its partners, it provides a wide range of
internationally renowned products for government, business and the individual –
from complex digital information to traditional walking maps.
In addition to the above paragraph you may also use the following
optional text.
At the heart of Ordnance Survey is a vision that, together with its partners, it
will be the content provider of choice for location-based information in the new
information economy.
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