Rapid Product Prototyping In Ordnance Survey

Baz Newman

Senior Product Developer

11th June 2014

Rapid Product Prototyping in Ordnance Survey

•  Who am I and who is Ordnance Survey

•  Product Development

•  The variety of projects

•  How FME is invaluable to us

Overview

•  Been at Ordnance Survey for 10 years •  Worked in Cartography for over 8 years •  Been a Senior Product Developer for the last year and a half •  Love playing sport

Bit about me

Who is Ordnance Survey?

The  Na'onal  Mapping  Authority  of  Great  Britain  

An  informa'on  service  provider  

•  Creates  and  maintains  the  defini've  na'onal  database  of  geographical  informa'on  

•  Updated  with  5  000  changes  every  day  by  dedicated  surveyors  

•  Used  to  create  a  wide  range  of  digital  data  products  as  well  as  paper  maps  

•  Draws  on  skills  of  1  500  staff  

Product Development

Brief •  In preparation for a new production system devise a way to automatically place

and snap existing contour value labels onto new contours •  Current contour labelling not intelligent enough •  Data sources

•  iDTM contours •  ESRI Geodatabase text feature classes

Contour Value Placement Problem    Solving  

Contour Value Placement

Contour Value Placement

Contour Value Placement

Contour Value Placement

Brief •  Create some prototype illustrative .csv data •  Show relationships between features •  Data sources:

•  OS MasterMap® Integrated Transport Network™ (ITN) Layer •  Boundary-Line •  In house settlement names database

Illustrative Gazetteer

Illustrative Gazetteer

Illustrative Gazetteer

Illustrative Gazetteer

Illustrative Gazetteer – Sample Data

Gazetteer prototype web front end

The Gazetteer will contain, amongst other attributes:

•  Unique IDs •  Road names and numbers •  Settlements by hierarchy •  Postcodes

And will be incrementally updated with further themes each release, such as;

•  Hills and mountains •  Forests •  Lakes

Gazetteer of Great Britain

Brief •  Create a prototype 3D PDF •  Will be used to show customers what could be done with their data •  Data sources:

•  .DGN file supplied to us by the customer

Illustrative 3D PDF

Illustrative 3D PDF

Illustrative 3D PDF

Illustrative 3D PDF

Brief •  Transform raw data to product specification •  Build a fulfilment system that can produce specific area of interest alpha data to

enable delivery to customers •  Source data

•  Building height information •  Contract Polygon Store •  OS MasterMap® Topography Layer

OS MasterMap® Topography Layer Building Height Attribute: Alpha

Product Creation

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Digital Terrain Model

Digital Surface Model

OS MasterMap Topography

Layer

Building Height Attribute

OS MasterMap® Topography Layer - Building Height Attribute: Alpha

OS MasterMap® Topography Layer - Building Height Attribute: Alpha

OS MasterMap® Topography Layer - Building Height Attribute: Alpha

OS MasterMap® Topography Layer - Building Height Attribute: Alpha

Visualisation

Brief •  Create some prototype beta data for OSMM Sites Layer •  Will go out to customers to show what the final product will look like •  Data sources

•  Functional Sites •  Access Points •  OS MasterMap® Integrated Transport Network™ (ITN) Layer

OS MasterMap® Sites Layer Beta

OS MasterMap® Sites Layer Beta

OS MasterMap® Sites Layer Beta

OS MasterMap® Sites Layer Beta

OS MasterMap® Sites Layer Beta

OS MasterMap® Sites Layer Beta

OS MasterMap® Sites Layer Beta

Routing Points Access Points

OS MasterMap® Sites Layer Beta

OS MasterMap® Sites Layer Beta

•  Vast array of projects come through the Product Development team at Ordnance Survey

•  FME is vital to many of them

•  Without the use of FME some projects would take a lot longer to complete and some of the past projects would never have been delivered on time

Summary

Baz Newman barrie.newman@ordnancesurvey.co.uk