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Innovation: Location matters

Location data is transforming how we experience, navigate, and ultimately better our world.

We can help you to develop new location based services and applications by:

  • connecting you to partners and communities,
  • providing innovation project funding through competitions and
  • giving access to map data and tools

 

 
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Fund your idea

 

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Innovation success stories 

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Whether you’re building a location-based web-app, visualising geospatial data or creating other products and services with Ordnance Survey mapping data, here you’ll find links to all the things you need to get going, such as:

  • Data & Tools;
  • Support Documentation;
  • Community Forum;
  • Wiki,
  • News;
  • Events & Competition and more!

GeoVation is Ordnance Survey’s innovation initiative. 

It runs challenges that encourage innovative new ideas to address specific problems; where the use geographical data is a key part of the solution.

Entrepreneurs, developers, community groups, government and innovators can enter GeoVation Challenges for a chance to win innovation funding to help develop their ideas.

See our case study map, to find out about our previous GeoVation Challenge winners.

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Learn how we can help you turn your ideas into success stories with our GeoVation booklet. 

 

 


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