Geospatial expertise from Ordnance Survey. Discover how to use location data to your advantage, and maximise its potential. Our geospatial consulting services can help lead you to a better place
Our geospatial consulting services enable government agencies, local authorities, private businesses – both local and international – to unlock the power, and maximise the value of geospatial and land information.
OS customers and licensed Partners have the opportunity to create, manage, maintain, and utilise highly accurate and up-to-date location data, whatever their needs might be. Make better data-driven decisions, monitor and respond to change, deliver better, more efficient public services, achieve national and organisational objectives – OS can help you reach your goal.
Understand ‘Where?’ to add new insight to your decision making:
Become more efficient using the power of place:
Use geospatial data to make sustainable decisions and monitor your net zero ambition and achievements:
Create connected cities where happiness and quality of life are paramount:
Understand and unlock the value of geospatial data:
Put geospatial data at the heart of your policy and services:
OS advises a wide spectrum of organisations, from local to national governments, amenities and utilities, new start-ups, and longstanding enterprises. We help demonstrate how location-based solutions can help drive your economic growth, technological innovation, sustainable development, and much more.
Whatever your end-goal, whatever geospatial solution you have in mind, our consultants can help you with:
Our strategy formulation services help create a national vision for geospatial data, defining national, Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) and Geospatial Knowledge Infrastructure (GKI). We also look ahead at future trends, organisational geospatial strategy, and designing and implementing operating models.
We look at the value and commercialisation of geospatial data, providing a realistic, potential value and return on investment (ROI) to your organisation, including go-to-market strategies. We assess your existing capacity, skills, and capability, to provide our recommendations and even a roadmap. We’re here to help you reach your desired goals.
Our services mean the strategy definition is done for you, as we will help target investment decisions, maximise the value from using geospatial data, and secure increased funding and investment with strengthened business cases and evidence-based policy proposals – including economic benefits.
Unlocking our expertise will help increase the relevance of mapping and location data, integrating your organisation within a successful ecosystem driving economic growth.
Our strategy formulation services help create a national vision for geospatial data, defining national, Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) and Geospatial Knowledge Infrastructure (GKI). We also look ahead at future trends, organisational geospatial strategy, and designing and implementing operating models.
We look at the value and commercialisation of geospatial data, providing a realistic, potential value and return on investment (ROI) to your organisation, including go-to-market strategies. We assess your existing capacity, skills, and capability, to provide our recommendations and even a roadmap. We’re here to help you reach your desired goals.
Our services mean the strategy definition is done for you, as we will help target investment decisions, maximise the value from using geospatial data, and secure increased funding and investment with strengthened business cases and evidence-based policy proposals – including economic benefits.
Unlocking our expertise will help increase the relevance of mapping and location data, integrating your organisation within a successful ecosystem driving economic growth.
We can help optimise data production, whatever data acquisition or aggregation methods you use. Our services use global standards to create data management frameworks, architecture, and model designs. We can also help you to build survey teams, run digitisation, or data quality assurance programmes.
OS has a long history of following, and even co-developing new geospatial data standards with global standards bodies. You can reduce time, increase consistency and quality of your geospatial data, using machine learning techniques, to meet stakeholder and customer requirements. We can put the right geospatial governance in place to enable collaboration, ensuring your data is Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR).
OS Rapid Mapping combines the latest satellite imagery with proven artificial intelligence (AI) technology. Quickly generate high-definition maps, and ensure your maps remain up to date through automatic feature extraction, and change detection.
Our services can help your organisation’s successful digital data transformation, ensuring change programs land successfully across organisations, and harnessing technology where required to better manage and integrate data. We can help you design geospatial solution architecture, build data integration pipelines and workflows, and provide data quality assurance.
We are committed to each organisation’s capability building, making the relevant teams effective and efficient. By developing your teams’ understanding and use of location data, you can start to unlock new layers of analytics and insights.
And we can help with geospatial data production supply chain management, development, and optimisation, and improve your productivity and resilience, making you more adaptable to change. You can become more efficient, and sustainable. Helping to increase usage of geospatial data, staying relevant to customers and stakeholders, and becoming profitable.
Our analytics and insight services can help our customers better understand how location provides eureka moments, leading to improved decision making, and greater efficiencies. Use location data to validate and improve the quality of existing datasets, or collate unconnected datasets using location as a common key. We can help you create data sharing models, engage with stakeholders and improve data monetisation.
We can teach you how to use the power of location; to reveal data-driven insights, by providing custom-made datasets, data APIs, software applications, and our consulting services.
We can help you plan and design new network infrastructure, monitor performance, and identify assets in needs of attention, enabling you to better plan co-ordinate response and recovery.
Our international services are tailored to meet the needs of governments and municipalities. Discover how we can help your nation grow to its full potential, using geospatial solutions and consultancy expertise
Below are use-cases of how other organisations have taken advantage of our consultancy services to develop new and innovate solutions.
In a move to grow its geospatial capacity and capability, Survey and Land Registration Bureau (SLRB) drew on OS expertise and corporate strategy to develop a new transformation programme.
The first duty of the government is to keep citizens safe and the country secure. Read how location based context was key to better understanding local crime patterns and trends.
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.
OS supported Devon and Cornwall Police in the planning and delivery of a safe and successful G7 conference. Using the latest 3D mapping solutions from OS the emergency services were able to plan and work through various scenarios to protect and world leaders.
OS and the GISC Department of Dubai Municipality are harnessing location data to accelerate innovation in Dubai to do just that. The partnership between GISCD and OS has outlined a focused route to maximise the use of geospatial data in Dubai.
During the Covid-19 pandemic authoritative location data and OS expertise supported the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) in their national response plans.
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