Ordnance Survey – Great Britain's national mapping agency
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Balancing the differing and sometimes conflicting interests of different environmental stakeholders is a high priority.
Key issues
You may identify with some of the following challenges:
Reassuring the public about building on flood plains in the light of floods in summer 2007.- Meeting climate change targets – made more urgent by the droughts in 2006 and 2005.
- Ensuring public health is not compromised by disease epidemics in livestock, such as the outbreaks in 2007 of foot-and-mouth disease in cattle and avian 'flu in migratory wildfowl; and
- Providing accurate information to the public and landowners about the rights of access to open countryside.
- Assessing the relative merits of different sources of alternative energy production, each one of which carries different environmental costs.
Geographic information can address many of these by providing:
- detailed mapping, height elevation models and high-resolution imagery of high-risk areas; and
- a national address referencing framework that links disparate location-related datasets.
This can be made available on your Intranet to all members of your organisation as appropriate, putting information that is easy to visualise at the fingertips of those who need to make quick operational decisions.
Our offering
OS MasterMap® Topography Layer
Our flagship large-scale, polygonised and seamless topographic database product, it offers clear and customisable on-screen mapping, plus the facility to overlay your own data, making it ideal for detailed planning and incident response.
The most complete, comprehensive, national spatial address dataset for the whole of Great Britain, it is ideal as a means of providing a geographical context to other datasets, enabling you quickly to identify trends and homes at risk.
A maintained dataset of high-quality aerial photography, it provides a detailed aerial map of Great Britain, ideal for assessing risks associated with, for example, flood drainage.
Interested? Please get in touch
We'd like to discuss your geographical information needs in greater detail. In the first instance, please email us or phone us on 023 8079 2706 and we'll get suggest how to take this forward.