PAI Toolbox

The PAI toolbox is an additional structure to navigate the Ordnance Survey positional accuracy improvement (PAI) website and find out what you as an organisation who needs to implement PAI for your datasets needs to do about it. It complements the Ordnance Survey PAI website and aims to answer the question 'What do I need to do next?' in different stages of implementation.

The navigation approach follows a high-level project plan. This project plan is supplemented with additional documents that are linked into the relevant project phases. These are generally quite generic but are amended with chapters from existing case studies to illustrate how particular organisations have dealt with a particular issue. The outlined project plan should be understood as a suggestion only. The PAI toolbox does not represent Ordnance Survey's view of how a user of Ordnance Survey large-scale data should or must deal with PAI, since this should be individually assessed for every single user.

The PAI toolbox highlights important generic steps in a PAI implementation project. If you have your own, different plan that works for you this is absolutely fine. Nevertheless, you may also find useful ideas in the suggested structure that could be incorporated in your existing plans.

The PAI toolbox is mainly targeted to local authorities but will also provide a useful resource to users of large-scale Ordnance Survey data in other market sectors. It was produced in conjunction with the LoGGIC PAI subgroup and selected="selected" local authorities and was initially presented to a wide audience at Ordnance Survey's local government conferences throughout September 2004.

The PAI process and the effect on customer data can be seen on this PAI demonstration.

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