Project planning

Land and property professionals need to manage budgets, schedules and quality carefully to deliver building projects to specification.

Key issues

• Choosing the right sites to develop
• Designing buildings that make the most of the site
• Meeting demanding customers expectations
• Interpreting complex planning regulations correctly

The solution

Geographical information can help by enabling you to:

• identify suitable sites across a wide area quickly.
• use large scale mapping to plan your site, including provision of water and gas.
• overlay historical and third-party data to identify contamination issues.
• present compelling proposals to customers and planners.

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.

Our offering

OS Sitemap

Developed to meet the needs of architects and consulting engineers, you can order site centred exracts of mapping in a number of different formats – paper, DXF, TIFF – and to different scales. OS Sitemap is available from Ordnance Survey Mapping and Data Centres instore, by email or via a desktop mapping service.

OS MasterMap® Integrated Transport Network™ Layer

An accurate, detailed and up-to-date digital map of Great Britain’s road structure, it comprises:

• The Roads Network – all navigable roads across Great Britain, from motorways to alleyways; and
• Road Routing Information – route information such as width, weight and height restrictions that will higlight site access issues.

OS Mastermap Address Layer 2

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.

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 get suggest how to take this forward.