geospatial open data helps to improve public services | katerina harrington | march 2015

Geospatial Open Data helps to improve public services

GEOSPATIAL OPEN

DATA HELPS TO

IMPROVE PUBLIC

SERVICES

Katerina Harrington

Public Sector Relationship

Manager

27 March 2015

I WILL COVER…

• An introduction to Geographic Information (GI)

• Open data examples

• Existing OS OpenData products

• New OS OpenData products

• Transparency Agenda obligations

• Questions


GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION (GI)

• GI or Geographic Data - is a collection of information that can describe

objects and things with relation to where they are located on the ground. OS

use x,y coordinates, longitudes and latitudes are also used.

• 100% of Local Authorities use GI!

• Most Local Authorities have in-house GI experts.

• To realise the benefits of GI you use a Geographic Information System. All

Local Authorities have a GIS.

• All Local Authorities strive to improve services, GI is helping to do so.


CORNWALL COUNCIL’S SEAMLESS BASE-MAP IMPROVES

CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE

• ‘I don’t like the way the map changes

style as I zoom in and out’.

• Introduce greater consistency into

the mapping styled from vector

products

• A 15% switch of channel from phone

to web offers a potential saving of

£423,000 in one year.

http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-

government/case-studies/cornwall-council-base-map-

customer-experience.html


http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/case-studies/cornwall-council-base-map-customer-experience.html

ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS IMPROVE HEALTH CARE IN

NORTH ESSEX

• Ordnance Survey geographic

information underpins a local ‘stop

smoking’ programme. Demand has

increased by 300% since more

effective targeting of services has

been introduced.

• A pilot project was initiated to

improve the detection of

undiagnosed Chronic Obstructive

Pulmonary Disease (COPD) using

community pharmacies. Maps were

provided to the project team to assist

in identifying areas of high-risk

patients and optimally located

pharmacies to include in the

programme.


http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-

government/case-studies/north-essex-os-maps-

improve-health-care.html

http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/case-studies/north-essex-os-maps-improve-health-care.html

OS OPEN DATA STACK

MiniScale

1: 250 000 Scale Colour Raster

Meridian2

Strategi

Vector Map District

OS Open Rivers

OS Open Roads

OS Open Map - Local

Boundaryline

OS Open Names

Codepoint Open

Terrain 50

View. Pin. Share


MAPPING - MINISCALE

• Clean, simple and uncluttered

mapping, ideal for magazine and

brochure illustrations.

• Designed for desktop graphic

applications without the need for

more complex GIS.

• The mapping is ready for

customisation and conversion into

any graphic format, in particular

creating web images.


CODE-POINT OPEN

• Enable users of your route-planning

application to enter postcodes as

their starting points and destinations

• Empower your website users to find

houses for sale in particular

postcodes

• Provide simple 'find my nearest'

mobile applications.


OS Open Map - Local OS Open Rivers

OS Open Roads OS Open

Names

A new ‘street level’ vector dataset designed as an effective backdrop for integrating and visualising other analytical open data.

A generalised road network product delivering a national view of Great Britain’s road network.

A generalised network enabled product

delivering a national view of Great Britain’s

rivers.

A significant upgrade to our legacy

gazetteer products for use in location

searches on both mobile and web.


BETA BETA

BETA

OS OPENMAP - LOCAL

• Provides a backdrop for

visualisation for mapping.

• Integrating analytical data such as

other Government information.

• High quality visual building detail

including important buildings.

• Includes extents of functional sites

such as hospitals and schools.

• Easy to use and simple to style in

accordance with your mapping

demands.


ANALYSIS USING OS OPEN MAP - LOCAL


OS OPEN ROADS

• OS Open Roads is a connected road

network for Great Britain.

• All classified roads included

(Motorway and A & B Roads)

• Includes officially named unclassified

roads

• Compatible with the road detail in

other OS OpenData products


OS Open Names will:

• Enable quick and accurate

location searching by a

number of different criteria

• a structured index to

geographic names

• Link names across a variety

of media

Record attributes

OS OPEN NAMES – SIMPLE SEARCH SOLUTION


OS OPEN PRODUCTS LICENSED UNDER OGL V3.0


Using Information under this licence• Worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive licence to use the Information subject

to the conditions below. • This licence does not affect your freedom under fair dealing or fair use or any other

copyright or database right exceptions and limitations.

You are free to:• copy, publish, distribute and transmit the Information;• adapt the Information;• exploit the Information commercially and non-commercially for example, by combining it

with other Information, or by including it in your own product or application.

You must • acknowledge the source of the Information in your product or application by including or

linking to any attribution statement specified by the Information Provider(s) and, where possible, provide a link to this licence;

If a specific attribution statement is not provided, the following should be used:

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

HELP MEET YOUR TRANSPARENCY AGENDA

OBLIGATIONS

• OS derived data has licensing implications.

However,

• The Unique Property Reference Number (UPRN) within your LLPG and

AddressBase data is now royalty free. This will help to meet your

Transparency Agenda obligations.

• Councils can publish their public asset data as open data with no OS

licensing restrictions.


GOING FORWARD…

• OS OpenData is already used by many Local Authorities.

• Local Authorities are already seeing the benefits.

• But we would like to help more departments benefit from OS data.

• If you don’t know anything about GI but would you like to, contact me or your

in-house GI expert.

• Let us know how we can help further?

• www.os.uk/opendata


http://www.os.uk/opendata

QUESTIONS


Katerina Harrington

[email protected]

02380 055047

geospatial open data helps to improve public services | katerina harrington | march 2015

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