Britain’s national mapping agency, Ordnance Survey, is now making use of micro-blogging site Twitter to detail their day to day work.

Ordnance Survey said the sharing their work on Twitter would help general public understand their role better.

To begin with, a total of 14 surveyors across the country will send tweets as they go about recording and measuring changes for the maps.

A spokesperson for the Ordnance Survey wrote in a blog post, "From today, a selection of our surveyors, field staff and technical experts will be tweeting live as they update the nation's mapping.”

Ordnance Survey, which has a workforce of around three hundred surveyors, makes as many as five thousand changes to its national master map each day.

Using the map, people can easily see where each person is working as it gives their position to within a few tens of meters. The map is used by all manners of official bodies and companies for a range of activities, such as directing ambulances, feeding GPS systems and planning bus routes.