IN 2019, Ordnance Survey (OS) created a poster to commemorate 70 years since the 1949 Act of Parliament that began the family of National Parks in Great Britain.

This year, OS is holding photo competitions to celebrate the 70th anniversary of two of their oldest landscapes – the Lake District and Dartmoor National Park.

Having already run the Lake District competition, OS is now teaming up with its friends at Dartmoor National Park to find a front cover image for the new edition OL 28 Dartmoor OS Explorer map.

Ordnance Survey is now running a photo competition to find a new front cover image for its Dartmoor map to celebrate the 70th anniversary.

OS hopes that local photographers will have a Dartmoor scene it can use on the map.

It says that due to the latest lockdown and government advice to stay local, nobody is advised to travel to Dartmoor to take photos.

OS hopes people will delve through their images and find a breath-taking sunrise illuminating Dartmoor’s granite tor or a stunning panorama of the vast moor or maybe captured prehistoric ruins or abandoned medieval villages showcasing local ancient history.

If you have, then why not submit them?

The winner of the competition will receive the new map with their photo on the front cover, the brand new range of OS Official branded products and to top it all off, a signed copy of Jo Bradford’s book “Smart phone, smart photography” and a print of one of her Dartmoor photographs.

To enter, email your photo(s) to: [email protected] along with the following information, your full name and postal address and the specific OS Map that your photograph applies to and the location from which your photo was taken or the location which is depicted in the photo.

For example: OL 28 Dartmoor – view of River Dart looking West from Two Bridges. You should indicate the location by inserting the grid coordinates.

The closing date is February 25, 2021 and the publication date is June 14, 2021.

Photo requirements

a Colour: RGB (CMYK images will not be accepted); the image needs to be in colour.

b Format: JPEG or Camera RAW.

c Area (at 300dpi): Height 151 mm, Width 142 mm.

d The minimum number of pixels, across the shortest dimension, should be 2,000px

e If submitting a landscape (wide) photo the height should be 2,000 pixels or more

f If submitting a portrait (tall) photo the width should be 2,000 pixels or more

g Photos with more than 3,000 pixels are preferred as this allows for cropping and the bleed edge cuts.

If you’re unsure if your photo(s) match these requirements, send them in anyway and OS can check them.

After the closing date has passed, 10 photos will be selected by a panel of judges from both Ordnance Survey and Dartmoor National Park. An overall winner will then be selected by OS, to make sure the winning image is compatible.

By entering this competition, the person who took the photos gives permission to OS to share your photo across its media channels if you are one of the 10 finalists. If you win, you give permission for use of your photo on the front cover of the new edition OL 28 Dartmoor OS Explorer map.