Credit: Ordnance Survey
The UK’s Ordnance Survey (OS) has announced its biggest digital transformation in more than a decade.
The development will offer customers a personalised data experience when accessing the OS National Geographic Database (NGD), which contains over half a billion geographical features and is kept up-to-date with 20,000 daily changes.
With the ability to create customised data selections, customers will be able to more easily pick and choose data as and when they need it from a simplified data structure, with the potential to speed up processes from a week to a matter of minutes and hours.
The launch represents a significant milestone for OS, with the recently launched OS Select+Build and OS NGD API – Features, as it accelerates efficiencies and enables organisations to make critical decisions and implement viable solutions, as well as automate workflows and reduce data management so they can operate more sustainably.
OS Select+Build adds a new download capability to the OS Data Hub that sits alongside OS OpenData, OS Premium products and existing APIs. The new OS NGD data structure means that customers can build their own data packages from nine themes including address, buildings, land use, transport and water. These themes are made up of product-ready data organised into feature types — and will allow customers to tailor their data experience to better meet their needs.
OS data is more accessible and easier to use than ever before with the UK’s Public Sector Geospatial Agreement (PSGA), a contract with the Geospatial Commission, offering almost 6,000 public sector bodies and organisations access to OS’s high-quality data and services through the OS Data Hub.
