His project report titled: "A baseline study of Monmouth Beach's Ammonite Pavement" has already been published by the UK mapping agency, the Ordnance Survey.

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Mapping projects, such as Ordnance Survey maps, will also benefit from the project he said.

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So Trusler decided to conduct a plumbing survey of sorts, mapping latrine and downpipe locations around the city.

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For example, the U.S. Geological Survey does not have complete groundwater mapping data and, at current funding levels, may not obtain it for decades.

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The Tory former chancellor Lord Howe of Aberavon added: "It is well known that the Ordnance Survey is a world-class national mapping organisation and national treasure".

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Mapping the modern distribution of these superclusters is one of the tasks of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (another foundation-funded instrument, based in New Mexico), which is scanning a quarter of the sky in unprecedented detail.

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