Potential applications

There is a vast range of potential applications throughout industry sectors:

Building construction – Construction engineering requires a range of positional solutions in a variety of applications.  Real time and post process ‘metre’ and ‘centimetre’ services will be required.

Utilities – Positioning buried services accurately in three dimensions saves time and money by making assets easier to find.  A standard approach also enables precise location data to be shared, promoting better coordination between organisations.

Emergency services  - Applications such as vehicle tracking, support for dispersed staff and accident analysis can all benefit from improved positional accuracy information.

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Port operations – Both precision guidance of shipping in the near shore environment and in wider port operations (locating containers and so on) can utilise enhanced GPS services to provide the positional data required.

Machine automation – Modern agricultural and earth working machinery can use precision GPS positioning to control their vehicle tracking.

Air traffic services – As the use of GPS and services enabled through OS Net develop, new applications will be found and enabled. This could include air navigation and many other uses.

Across business and government, any national initiative or policy that requires high accuracy positioning information (for example road user charging) could benefit.    

As OS Net^TM reflects the principles of the Digital National Framework, an industry standard for integrating and sharing geographic information from multiple sources, the services will reference to a common coordinate system and support interoperability of data.

For more information on the Digital National Framework, visit www.dnf.org