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There are more than a million kilometres of services buried underground. So coordination between the different organisations involved is essential. This is where Ordnance Survey data can help.
Accurate geographic information (GI) provides a common language or framework for all parties, from utility companies and highway authorities to civil engineers and surveyors.
The result is better communication and an increased ability to share records.
Benefits include:
- Detailed and up-to-date location data means fewer mistakes
- Pinpoint accuracy enables more efficient maintenance and improved crisis management
- Greater ability to share and exchange information leads to improved coordination between different organisations
Events
AGI Utilities SIG Event – 24 April 2008
Event sponsored by Infoterra and Ordnance Survey
Summer 2007 highlighted the ancillary impact caused by the loss of essential services due to extreme weather conditions. Interim recommendations of the Pitt Review include the need for detailed assessments of critical telecommunications, including how Geographic Information (GI) can support this.
Autumn seminar – presentations now available
We were delighted to welcome some eighty delegates to this event at Marriott Forest of Arden Hotel on 26 September 2007. The agenda and presentations are now available.
Demos
View our demos to see our data in action:
Renewable energy
The Government is serious about its commitment to renewable energy; consequently the utilities industry has been the subject of increasing legislation, measures and penalties. Industry pressures to grow renewable generation and develop a more sustainable approach to energy use have been manifold.
Discover the role our data is playing
Gas and electricity
Electricity and gas are essential commodities, on which the UK economy depends daily. It is therefore important for the country that the companies responsible for delivering and providing these utilities do so as cost-effectively and efficiently as possible, meeting customer needs, adhering to the increasing level of regulation and keeping shareholders happy.
Streetworks
The Traffic Management Bill, along with increasing pressure from customers, government and pressure groups, is resulting in a greater need for utilities companies to reconsider their working practices and coordinate streetworks to minimise disruption and manage buried services more effectively.
Geographic intelligence is underpinning the solution
Latest
Birthday marks successful two years for OS MasterMap Address Layer 2
More than 21, 000 users across industry, commerce and the public sector are benefiting from the most accurate link between every British property address and its location “on the map”.
Ordnance Survey offers water companies a route to better customer service
Research with water utility records has signaled the potential of Ordnance Survey’s most accurate addressing data to improve the links between customer and asset management.
Thames Water's corporate GIS (Flash)
Asset management for Yorkshire Water (Flash)
Presentation by Marc Hobell, Ordnance Survey's Strategic Development Manager for Utilities, to the SBGI Utilities Street Works event, 31 January 2008.
Register your interest in OSMasterMap Address Layer2
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Utilities news
Mapping the way to joined-up street works
Utility companies and local authorities, equipped with Ordnance Survey’s most detailed mapping data, are transforming the management and coordination of street works in England.
Ordnance Survey’s most detailed addressing to underpin Thames regeneration
Ordnance Survey’s most detailed geographic address information, OS MasterMap Address Layer 2, is supporting sustainable development plans for a large part of the Thames Gateway.
The National Underground Assets Group (NUAG) has set out the vision for the future of buried services. It aims to develop and implement standardised procedures on how location information is recorded and stored by the end of 2007.
Articles
A White paper on ‘How to link a level 3 gazetteer to ITN’ will shortly be avialble. The paper is aimed at helping customers (particularly utilities) incorporate our data into street-works initiatives and projects.