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The Public Sector

Ordnance Survey works closely with a wide range of public sector organisations, providing digital map products the sharing and visualisation of data, supporting better problem solving and helping to reduce costs and drive up efficiency levels.

Our accurate and detailed map digital products help to make the following possible:

  • Improving response times for emergency services, by optimising route-planning
  • Saving councils money on waste management by using geographic data to improve refuse collection
  • Improving resiliance by supporting local flooding response planning activities
  • Targetting the resources of health teams to target areas of greatest need across a town or cities demographic data
  • Enabling drainage boards to map their physical assets and to maintain vital drainage around historical sites
  • Providing the means to visualise and share data in a geographic form, to improve decision making and solve problems

New member?

If you are a new or exisitng member of the Public Sector Mapping Agreement (PSMA) or One Scotland Mapping Agreement (OSMA) please use the button in the right hand column (opposite) to log in to the members area.

Enter the members area:

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Being a member of a public sector collective agreement (such as the PSMA or OSMA) gives your organisation access to these benefits and supports collaboration with other organisations involved in the public sector service provision.

Find out more about how you can benefit from use of Ordnance Survey data in the sections below:

How are these activities made possible?

This happens thanks to two public sector mapping agreements - the PSMA (which covers England and Wales) and the OSMA (which covers Scotland).

Membership of one of these agreements gives a public sector organisation access to a range of Ordnance Survey products. This helps these organisations to deal with a wide range of challenges and make use geographic and location data across a range of applications.

Who are our customers?

To date, over 2,800 organisations have joined the PSMA and over 100 organisations are now members of the OSMA. These include local authorities, district councils, health departments, national park authorities, emergency services and many other public sector bodies.

To find out more, please see our customer overview or visit our case-study map.

A licence for collaboration?

Our common licensing arrangements allow our members to share our data with third parties legally and without the need for prior arrangement with us. The licensing programme also allows us to provide better services to citizens and reduce duplication, providing cost savings to the public sector, as well as giving organisations better efficiency internally. This means that public sector organisations can collaborate and partner on projects more easily, plan and meet e-governance targets more efficiently, and provide new ways to join up the provision of services and policies for citizens of Great Britain.

Where can I learn more?

Joining a mapping agreement is just the start of the journey, If you would like to learn more about the products offered under each   mapping agreement, please look at the following resources:

Find more answers on our learning resources area or contact us via our support page.

How do I join a mapping agreement?

Ordnance Survey have two mapping agreements, or licences, which cover the provision of our data to the public sector.

These are called the PSMA and OSMA. Here is how you can become a member of the mapping agreement for your location:

Joining the PSMA

To become a member of the Public Sector Mapping Agreement, please review the eligibilty criteria, then complete the form below: 

Join the PSMA

Joining the OSMA

To join the One Scotland Mapping Agreement, please review the who can join and then initiate your registration below: 

Join the OSMA

Anything else we can help you with?

If you have any further questions, please contact us via our support pages.

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For general enquiries, complaints, feedback or suggestions, email: customerservices@ordnancesurvey.co.uk or call us on 08456 05 05 05