The 21st CenturyOrdnance Survey

Ed Parsons Chief Technology Officer

Who is Ordnance Survey ?

Great Britain's national mapping agency

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Information, not just a map

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• Uses cutting-edge surveying techniques to update and enhance database

• Developing one of the worlds largest spatial databases

• Continually introducing new ways to deliver GI to meet market demand

• Active participant in global GI community initiatives

• Worldwide reputation for championing innovation and technology

99.6%

Agency Performance Monitor

99.6 % of significant real-world features are represented in the database within six months of completion

Populating the database

GPS Field Capture

Aerial Survey

“As built” CAD drawings

1 billion features

Exploiting the database

Digital Data

Printed maps

Web ServicesPartners

Delivery online ..

Delivered by partners

Ordnance Survey key facts..

• Ordnance Survey is solely funded through the licensing of information products and services

• 2005-6 Profit of £ 7.9m on a turnover of £117.7m

• Nearly 55% of revenue is now from the private sector

• Paid dividend £2.6m to UK Government stakeholder

Maintaining the National

Geospatial database

2121

Tablet PCCustomised Field editing softwareRTK GPS

GPS Receiver and Wireless Data modem

GPS AntennaCentimetre accuracy Antenna

Church Lawford Met Office Station

OSNET - RTK network

DMC SensorEquivalent 106 Megapixel 4 CCD Camera

Flight Data Storage3 x 300 GB RAID Disk packs

Pilot’s HUDLinks to GPS & Inertial Measurement Unit

£1m

The “new” geographic consumer..

Not your granddad anymore..

• Don’t remember life before the internet

• Instant gratification

• Issue rather than “political” motivation

• Member of a global community..

where iseverywhere..

Ultra-sound/laser range finding

GPS Absolute location

Pervasive location

RFID Relative location

Web 1.0 & LBS

where = peripheral

Network Access

Portal toolkit

ApplicationApplicationLocation API

Application

User

Location enabled

application stack

Network Access

Portal toolkit

ApplicationApplication

Location API

Application

User

Location enabled

application stack

Where

passive to active...

Enhanced situational awareness

Distance to Police Station 120m

Distance to Post Office 90m

Enhanced situational awareness

Distance to Police Station 60m

Distance to Post Office 40m

Enhanced situational awareness

Video Copyright Edinburgh University 2005

Product Simplicity

£

detail

OS MasterMap Topo

OS MasterMap ITN

OS MasterMap Address

OS MasterMap Imagery

Land-Line

Superplan data

Superplan plots

Landplan

OS StreetviewOS Locator

1:10 000 Raster

1:25 000 Raster

1:50 000 Raster

1:250 000 RasterStrategi

Meridian 2

MiniScale

AddressPoint

Code-Point

Code-Point polygons

OSCAR AMOSCAR TM

Landform Profile Plus

Points of InterestVector

Raster

Generalisation

Product Simplicity

Source DLM

DLM 10K ?

DLM 100K ?

DLM 250K ?

£

detail

Vector

Raster

On Demand

OSDatabase

OSPublishing Server

OGC Web service

OSDatabase

OSPublishing Server

OGC Web service

OS PartnerApp Server

OS Customer“Thick”/”Thin”Client

OS Customer“Thick”/”Thin”Client

Location Based Services future..

where = a driver

Thank you..