As part of the Geospatial Commission’s Public Sector Geospatial Agreement, over 5,500 public sector organisations now have direct and immediate access to Ordnance Survey’s most detailed and trusted location data via a suite of APIs which will transform how geospatial data is used to support government policy and underpin public services. Free at the point…
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Cadcorp supports latest Ordnance Survey mapping products
Cadcorp is providing software support for three free-to-use data products from Ordnance Survey, comprising OS Open Map – Local, OS Open Roads and OS Open Rivers. Support for the new data products was added in a recent service release of the Cadcorp Spatial Information System (SIS) suite. The three vector-based datasets provide a nationally-consistent and…
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£101,000 funding prize from Ordnance Survey
In partnership with Land Registry, Ordnance Survey has launched its eighth ‘GeoVation Challenge’ with £101,000 in development funding to help develop the best ideas and solutions to housing issues. Individuals, start-ups and existing businesses and organisations are invited to submit their ideas to improve housing by 19 November 2014. Outstanding entries will then be invited…
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Mapping the future at Yarlington Housing
Yarlington Housing Group has introduced GIS and spatial analytics across its operations to make significant cost and efficiency savings, based on linking disparate in-house and third-party data. The housing provider reported that the budget for the project was around £50,000. Based on Ordnance Survey mapping, Yarlington’s bespoke web-based system centralises data from in-house systems, partners,…
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Free Ordnance Survey mapping
Ordnance Survey data, including OS MasterMap products, is now free at the point of use for thousands of public-sector organisations in England and Wales, and no longer subject to limits on re-use when used internally within the public sector for public-sector activities. Under the new Public Sector Mapping Agreement, at least 750 public-sector users of…
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Free mapping from Ordnance survey
Ordnance Survey has developed OS OpenData, an online portal providing free and unrestricted access to a large range of mapping and geographic information. OpenData allows users to download a wide range of mapping and geographic information for free reuse direct to their computers, view maps and boundary information for the whole country, and develop web-map…
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