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 [email protected]