Ordnance Survey – Great Britain's national mapping agency
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Local authorities are being expected to deliver more for less by all stakeholders.
Key issues
You may identify with some of the following:
- Increasingly challenging financial settlements from central government
- Negative public perceptions about the levels of service that local authorities deliver
Geographic information can address many of these, delivering:
- a joined-up internal approach
- 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
Making cost and time savings from OS MasterMap
Enfield’s use of geographical information systems (GIS) is very well developed and has recently been extended to over 5 000 council staff.
Implemting an integrated system
Portsmouth City Council maintains a large number of disparate datasets used by departments such as social services, leisure and planning. The Council is committed to making this data more accessible and easier to use.
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.
Containing the precise coordinates of over 29 million residential and commercial properties in Great Britain, as well as structures without postal addresses, this provides the most accurate and up-to-date link between any address and its location.
Classifying nearly 4 million geographic and commercial features across Great Britain, providing a location for each of them and including postal addresses where applicable, with this product you choose what you see on screen, such as all banks within the TW3 postcode district.
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.