And the National Physical Laboratory's Electromagnetic and Time Metrology Index is available from this hypertext.

Ordnance Survey, Britain's national mapping agency are of course on the World Wide Web. Maps of Great Britain have undergone a £42m update. This involved 65,000 aerial images a year and the new information is available online. In the meantime a visit to the site will enable you to take advantage of their offer of a free copy of the newly enhanced viewer that, for the first time, enables you to view, manipulate and merge Ordnance Survey computerized mapping without the aid of specialist software. The page contains a great deal of useful information to enable you to get the most out of this application and they say "we strongly advise that you print a copy of it. This compact and flexible standalone application is called Osview has been created by Ordnance Survey to run on Windows 3.1, 95/98 & NT. There are both 16 bit and 32 bit versions available for download from the compressed self-installing archive."
In addition, a new feature is "Get-a-map" - from the ORDNANCE SURVEY which, to quote them, consists of "Get-a-map is a free internet mapping service provided by Ordnance Survey Britain's national mapping agency, in partnership with Multi Media Mapping, a leading internet mapping solution provider.
Maps at up to 1:250 000 scale (Motoring Atlas type specification) for the whole of Great Britain are provided free for users to print for personal and internal business use. In addition, a small number of images can be captured, (subject to a few simple conditions) for use in your own web pages."

There are those who readily believe that the Internet, the World Wide Web, are going out of date. A successor, already named The Grid, is being mooted. We all know of the early beginnings of the Internet from CERN to the present-day worldwide access for anyone with a computer and with everything from text, to pictures and sound being carried through it. The development of The Grid is also based on requirements of CERN who are developing a new particle accelerator (the Large Hadron Collider) LHC to increase their experimentations. The result of this (expected by 2005) is that there will be 1000 times the data they now have and it will all require processing. 300 Universities in Europe alone will be involved and possibly another 200 elsewhere in the world. The need for shared information is paramount. There is one overview of the situation and another as well as CERN issuing its information on the Internet.