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    • Proactive customer service with quality addressing data

      Ordnance Survey helped to enable a master source of address information to be collated into a central hub that Scottish Water, their partners, and agencies, can use to seamlessly manage the lifecycle of an address.

    • Helping Northumbrian Water create the first underground utilities map

      Delivering estimated savings of around £1 million, Northumbrian Water and Ordnance Survey (OS) created the first Underground Infrastructure Hub for the North East.

      Northumbrian Water provides water and wastewater services to just under 4.4 million people.

      In 2018 it asked OS...

    • Optimising meter reading with intelligent routing

      Morrison Data Services (MDS) is the largest independent multi-utility metering services company operating in the UK. It supports critical energy and water providers including British Gas, EDF, Thames Water, and Southern Water. With over 50 million energy and 9 million water meter readings made an...

    • GIS improves Wiltshire flood management

      Combining Dauntsey Parish local knowledge with Ordnance Survey (OS) digital maps to undertake a professional analysis of local flood impacts and risks.

      • Dauntsey in north Wiltshire has experienced serious flooding, affecting as many as 44 homes.
      • Using Geographic Information S
    • Complex land use decisions simplified by The Land App

      Tim Hopkin comes from three generations of farmers, and is revolutionising the way complex land use decisions are made, through the creation of The Land App.

      The Land App is an admin tool for the British countryside, available for use by the nation’s landowners, land agents and manag...

    • Helping to safeguard moorland life

      Aiding the planning of land management and restoration in conservation areas with a Land Cover Map.

      The South Pennine Moors Special Area of Conservation covers around 650km² of northern England. Since 2003, the Moors for the Future Partnership (MFFP) has been working to reverse more t...

    • OS finding smarter energy solutions for Milton Keynes

      Supporting local economic growth in Milton Keynes with geospatial data.

      Ordnance Survey (OS) provides geospatial datasets to help the MK:Smart Future Cities project in Milton Keynes.

      MK:Smart Future Cities project (MK:Smart) is a large collaborative initiative, partly funded by HEFC...

    • SSE uses OS MasterMap to maintain 48,500km of powerlines

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

      Ordnance Survey (OS) helped SSE to locate problems more efficiently, without the need for multiple site visits, as described in this case study.

    • OS working with DECC to secure affordable energy supplies

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

      DECC has combined data from a number of different sources to create the National Energy Efficiency Data-Framework (NEED) which is used to eff...