Describe your idea:
Google maps have an excellent interface, and it’s available everywhere, but the maps are terrible.
The Ordinance Survey has the best maps in the world, but they’re available nowhere.
Let’s develop an google maps style interface to OS maps.
Perhaps we could include Admiralty charts too? We, as tax payers, have already paid for all of these maps and charts.
What problem does it solve?:
The uselessness of electronic OS maps.
Type of idea: A piece of infrastructure or an API
One technical approach would be to re-use the openstreetmap.org user interface (thus avoiding reinventing the wheel) but provide Ordnance Survey tiles.
But the technical problems are easy compared to the political problems in getting the Ordnance Survey to license its data for public use.
OpenSpace lets you embed OS maps on your own website http://openspace.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/openspace/
e.g. You can scroll about this map all over the country (even though it is embedded to show things in the lakes) http://english-lake-district.info/maps/lake-district-tour-os.html