Technology trends and developments at the Ordnance Survey @ British Computer Society Geospatial SG inaugural meeting, May 2006

1. The 21st Century
Ordnance Survey
Ed Parsons
Chief Technology Officer

2. Who is Ordnance Survey ?

3. Great Britain's national mapping
agency

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5. Information, not just a map
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6. • 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

7. 99.6%
Agency Performance Monitor
99.6 % of significant real-world features are represented
in the database within six months of completion

8. Populating the database
Aerial Survey
1 billion features
GPS Field Capture
“As built” CAD drawings

9. Exploiting the database
Printed maps
Digital Data
Web Services
Partners

10. Delivery online ..

11. Delivered by partners

12. 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

13. Maintaining the
National
Geospatial
database
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14. GPS Antenna
Centimetre accuracy Antenna
Tablet PC
RTK GPS Customised Field editing software
GPS Receiver and Wireless
Data modem

15. OSNET - RTK network
Church Lawford Met Office Station

18. Pilot’s HUD
Links to GPS & Inertial Measurement Unit
£1m
Flight Data Storage
3 x 300 GB RAID Disk packs
DMC Sensor
Equivalent 106 Megapixel 4 CCD Camera

20. The “new” geographic
consumer..

21. Not your granddad anymore..
• Don’t remember life before the internet
• Instant gratification
• Issue rather than “political” motivation
• Member of a global community..

24. where is
everywhere..

26. Pervasive location
GPS Absolute location
RFID Relative location
Ultra-sound/laser range finding

27. Web 1.0 & LBS
where = peripheral

28. User
Location
enabled
Application
application
Application Application
Location API
stack
Portal toolkit
Network Access

31. User
Location
enabled
Application Application Application
application
Portal toolkit
stack
Location API
Network Access

32. Where
passive to
active...

33. Enhanced situational awareness
Distance to Police Station 120m
Distance to Post Office 90m

34. Enhanced situational awareness
Distance to Police Station 60m
Distance to Post Office 40m

35. Enhanced situational awareness
Video Copyright Edinburgh University 2005

36. Product Simplicity
OS MasterMap Topo
Land-Line
OS MasterMap Address
AddressPoint
1:10 000 Raster
OS MasterMap ITN
£ Landplan
Meridian 2
Code-Point OSCAR AM TM
OSCAR
Superplan plots
Landform Profile Plus OS MasterMap Imagery
1:25 000 Raster
OS Streetview Code-Point polygons
OS Locator
1:50 000 Raster Interest
Points of Superplan data
Vector
1:250 000Strategi
Raster
Raster
MiniScale
detail

37. Product Simplicity
DLM 250K ?
DLM 100K ?
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Source DLM
Raster
detail

38. On Demand
OGC Web
service
“Thick”/”Thin”
OS OS OS Customer
Client
Database Publishing Server
OGC Web
service
“Thick”/”Thin”
OS Partner
OS OS OS Customer
Client
App Server
Database Publishing Server

39. Location Based Services future..
where = a driver

40. Thank you..