Improving efficiency

Local authorities are needing to work smarter.

Key issues

You may identify with some of the following:

• Information is scattered in silos around the organisation.
• Government legislation and increased public awareness of rights to information make authority-wide information systems essential.
• Members of staff are increasingly working in cross-functional teams.

Geographic information can address many of these, delivering:

• a common referencing framework
• detailed information about the local area
• a framework for setting priorities and reporting results
• visual information that customer-facing staff can understand at a glance
• easier remote people and asset management

Case studies

Coventry City Council: a forward-looking authority

To help it fulfil this mission, the authority is using a council-wide GIS to ensure that accurate and up-to date geographical information is available to everyone who needs it, when they need it.

Forth Valley GIS

A public sector partnership, it provides corporate geographical information services to three unitary authorities. They have accrued significant benefits and successes from GIS deployment at operational and strategic levels across the Council over the last 10 years.

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.

OS MasterMap® Integrated Transport Network™ Layer

An accurate, detailed and up-to-date digital map of Great Britain’s road structure, it shows all navigable roads across Great Britain and route information such as width, weight and height restrictions that will assist your drivers' choice of route.

Our partners

You will need specialist software, often referred to as a geographical information system (GIS), to gain maximum benefit from our data products. Our partners provide services ranging from licensing off-the-shelf software right through to building you a bespoke solution that embeds our products.

Interested? Please get in touch

We'd like to discuss your geographical information needs in greater detail. In the first instance, please email us and we'll suggest how to take this forward.