Ordnance Survey – Great Britain's national mapping agency
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News
Ordnance Survey points to compelling location-based services (11-11-2003)
Larger, colour screens on mobile devices and faster data rates suggest that now is the time for location based offerings to take off in the UK, according to location data specialists at Ordnance Survey.
Redrawing the Wi-fi map of Britain (11-11-2003)
Research this year from IDC has indicated that wireless hotspots are set to expand rapidly across the whole of Europe. The analysts predict that there will be some 32,500 wireless hotspots Europe-wide by the end of 2007.
Ordnance Survey gears up for next generation of personal location-based services (11-11-2003)Ordnance Survey announces plans to develop the second phase of digital transport geography, to include footpaths and walkways, within OS MasterMap – its latest, highly detailed map data.
Case studies
It's a developers dream - a compelling and useful application from concept to working pilot in a matter of a few weeks. It seems unlikely - but it’s exactly what Yeoman Mobile Navigation has achieved by using Ordnance Survey data from the highly flexible Integrated Transport NetworkTM (ITN™) Layer of OS MasterMap™ to power a new pilot version of its established TravelM8TM service.
Mapping disabled access across the UK
LAND location based services for tourism
White papers
Pinpointing emergencies (pdf 181 Kb)
Articles
Enhancing the Customer Experience Using Location Data
Delivering a memorable user experience is vital in gaining and keeping customers. Central to this delivery is your data, more specifically, your location data; users must be sure that the information being presented is accurate and up-to-date. more>>
Location Based Services (LBS) is a term which has been very widely used within the geographic information industry in recent years. LBS seems to have been ‘about to happen’ for some time now. This phenomenon has been predicted to deliver a wide range of exciting new applications to business and consumer users and a tremendous market opportunity for geographic software vendors and data providers. LBS should be a key component in the whole wireless and mobile computing package. more>>
With the proliferation of wireless technology, the mobile device will soon replace the desktop PC as the predominant user interface with the digital world. This is a critical point for the geographic information (GI) community . This article examines the implications for map data providers and the key role of geography in the provision of context-sensitive content in a world of pervasive computing. Will our perception of what constitutes a “map” be changed forever? (pdf 195 Kb) more>>
'Definitive Great Britain location data in an open-standard'.
Until recently geographic data has been exchanged in many file formats, some have been system specific while others have been non-system specific, for example NTF and CSV. (pdf 82 Kb) more>>
Events
13th – 15th September 2005
Mobile Content World
Olympia, London
www.mobilecontentworld.biz