Case studies

Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) maintains 48,500km of high-voltage overhead power lines supported by wooden poles in Great Britain.

Ordnance Survey (OS) created the first 3D-enabled national spatial data model for the Kingdom of Bahrain with the Survey and Land Registration Bureau (SLRB) mapping authority.

The Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC) works with Ordnance Survey to make sure the UK has secure, clean, affordable energy supplies.

British Telecom (BT) combined data from Ordnance Survey and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland in one seamless service to create a dataset for the UK.

Providing a single source of accurate, reliable environmental information for Abu Dhabi’s decision makers.

Ordnance Survey provided expertise to help Kartverket integrate its land and sea divisions and increase uptake of mapping data.

Ordnance Survey developed a five year IT strategy for the Republic of Kosovo, including a new enterprise architecture and NSDI data model.

For Survey and Land Registration Bureau to grow it’s capacity and capability it drew on the strategy of Ordnance Survey.

The Brazilian Army used improved map generalisation to prepare for the 2016 Olympics.

GovTech asked Ordnance Survey for expert advice about creating data specifications and a product flowline to generate data.

Using Satellite Earth Observation data to monitor Dubai environments.

Using Ordnance Survey’s Street View product, NHS in Birmingham has pin pointed fast food joints near schools to cut on obesity rising rates. Yhkhaf

A new in-house website provides a source of traffic data to the public whilst delivering cost savings for the Department of Transport.

Optimising GPS active network performance to enhance geospatial infrastructure.

Using Ordnance Survey’s API, the Outdoors GPS app helps outdoor enthusiasts find their way – by providing OS Maps at any time, in any location – both on and offline.

Using Ordnance survey solutions including Mastermaps, Maritime and Coastguard Agency are able to pinpoint exact incident locations.

Harrow Council’s Route Optimisation Project aims to use Ordnance survey data to reduce vehicles used, save fuel and optimise driver numbers.

Ordnance Survey provided geospatial datasets to Milton Keynes: Smart Future Cities project to develop solutions to support economic growth.

By automating their Local Land Charges search process using GIS, Teignbridge district council were able to cut costs by £60,000.

Ordnance Survey (OS) undertook a Geospatial Maturity Assessment to identify the next steps that Dubai Municipality needed to take to support the government’s pursuit of citizen happiness.