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  1. [coordinate systems, geodesy] Acronym for Ordnance Survey Great Britain 1936. A datum developed as the national coordinate system for topographic mapping in Great Britain. Latitude and longitude coordinates in this datum are based on the Airy 1830 ellipsoid.

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