Geovation Water Challenge: OS Open Data
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- 2. C H A L L E N G E 2 0 1 5 : WAT E R O P E N D ATA M A S T E R C L A S S © Geovation 2015 2
- 3. Who are Ordnance Survey? OS is Britain’s mapping agency – since 1791. 224 years later, OS is now an internationally leading digital, big data powerhouse for geographic information (GI) and geospatial technology. © Geovation 2015 3
- 4. © Geovation 2015 4 2 minute Video – OS: Finding a Way
- 5. © Geovation 2015 5 460,000,000 Almost 500 million topography features available in OS MasterMap Topography Layer OS Products and Services
- 6. © Geovation 2015 6 10,000 Typically 10,000 updates per day OS Products and Services
- 7. © Geovation 2015 7 99.9% of new real world features are updated in the database within 6 months of their development. 99.9% OS Products and Services
- 8. Try our paid-for, premium products… © Geovation 2015 8 Why not download free samples of OS datasets today? OS MasterMap Topography Layer OS MasterMap Water Network AddressBase Premium You can download sample data files for paid-for OS products and use them in your software applications today, the sample data is available from the OS website HERE
- 9. What is OS Open Data? © Geovation 2015 • Geo data produced and maintained that’s free and available to re-use and re- publish. • Under the OGL ‘open data’ unleashes valuable datasets of government, enabling social, environmental, and economic good. • Download, view and develop www.os.uk/opendata 9
- 10. OS Open Data © Geovation 2015 Making available some of Britain’s most comprehensive mapping. Free, to get you started with geographic information. 10 1 Download 2010: OS Open Data journey began 2015: Now 16 available open data products a minute!
- 12. OS OpenData products include… OS open products are designed to add value and content to other open datasets. © Geovation 2015 12 OS Open Map – Local – a ‘street level’ vector dataset designed as an effective backdrop for integrating and visualizing other analytical open data. . OS Open Roads – a generalised road network product delivering a national view of Great Britain’s road network.
- 13. OS OpenData products OS Open Data collection includes… OS open products are designed to add value and content to other open datasets. © Geovation 2015 13 OS Open Rivers – a generalised network enabled product delivering a national view of Great Britain’s watercourses. OS Open Names – a significant upgrade to our legacy gazetteer products for use in location searches on both mobile and web – giving the most up to date available place names, road names, road numbers and postcodes.
- 14. OS Open Map - Local 15 © Geovation 2015 “The most detailed ‘street level’ vector mapping product available within the open data arena” OS Open Map - Local • Provides a backdrop for integrating and visualising analytical data such as other government data or your own commercial data. • High quality visual building detail including important buildings. • Includes extents of functional sites such as transport, hospitals and schools • Easy to use and simple to style in accordance with your mapping demands.
- 15. OS Open Map - Local 16 © Geovation 2015 KEY BENEFITS • Understand the full extent of your area with enhanced level of buildings details. • Recognise the presence of key functional sites including areas such as education and medical care. • Undertake analytical activities in alignment with key information, such as buildings, roads, railway lines, functional sties and more. • Present accurate information consistently with other available open data products.
- 16. OS Open Roads 18 © Geovation 2015 “a high-level view of the road network in Great Britain” OS OPEN ROADS • A connected road network for Great Britain. • Contains all classified roads (Motorway and A & B Roads) • Includes officially named unclassified roads • Compatible with the road details in OS Open Map – Local and OS Vector Map District product
- 17. OS Open Roads 19 KEY BENEFITS • Generalised road geometry – ability to understand the road network with generalised and accurate open road data in England and Wales. • Allows the sharing of additional data – such as traffic congestion and accident hotspots in context with the network. • Enables quick, high level analysis of the network – get answers back quickly. • Uses official DfT classification – providing clarity to all users for road classifications e.g. AA. • Conforms to defined geospatial standards (INSPIRE) – meaning customers can more easily set up their GIS systems and software, and it can be easily shared between applications globally. © Geovation 2015
- 18. OS Open Rivers 21 The only detailed, heightened water network of Great Britain showing the flow and precise course of rivers, streams, lakes and canals • A connected river network for Great Britain • Generalised from OS’ large-scale watercourse data • Shows locations of rivers, streams, lakes, lochs and canals • Highlights the direction of flow • Compatible with the OS Open Map – Local and OS Vector Map District products OS Open Rivers © Geovation 2015
- 19. OS Open Rivers 22 © Geovation 2015 KEY BENEFITS • Generalised water course geometry – ability to understand the water network at a ‘high level’ with generalised geometry and network connectivity, using ‘Strahler’. • Allows sharing of water network data with additional data – such as flooding locations and pollution hotspots. • Enables quick, high level analysis of the network – get answers back quickly for simple water course understanding and flood calculations. • Uses official water course name and number – providing clarity to the different organisations for river names, enabling high level area planning, accessibility planning, and sharing of data. • Conforms to defined geospatial standards (INSPIRE)
- 20. OS Open Names 23 © Geovation 2015
- 21. OS Open Names 24 A simple search solution – enables accurate location searching • Includes place names, road names, road numbers and postcodes • An enhancement on current OpenData gazetteers, OS LocatorTM and OS 1:50 000 Gazetteer, with… • Improved accuracy • Better quality content • More frequent updates • Also available via an API. OS Open Names © Geovation 2015
- 24. Case studies: previous Geovation winners 29 © Geovation 2015 Real Food Wales A unique network of local knowledge and interactive mapping using OS Vector Map, Street View, Boundary-Line, Strategi and Land-Form PANORAMA to showcase over 150 best food businesses along the Wales coast path, in Pembrokeshire. City Farmers Using OS and open data, local social, economic and environmental ‘topography’ has been visualised to frame problems between local government and communities on sustainability issues, helping shape small-scale social enterprise to support and celebrate local growing. Run An Empire An exercise strategy app game, using GPS with OS data to record paths players take and allow people to compete to capture and maintain control of as much territory as possible – using neighbourhoods as arenas for play.
- 25. Open data = innovation 31 OS OpenData aims to help drive innovation and Geovation Challenges have demonstrated this… Possibility made even better with new OS OpenSpace API: • Enabling you to embed and use OS maps for your business or non-business website and mobile applications © Geovation 2015
- 26. OS, open data and water This year’s Geovation Challenge is all about Water © Geovation 2015 32 How can geographic information be used as a tool for water innovation? We’ve got some water-related open data sources to get you thinking… OS Open Rivers + EA water catchment districts and management areas (in QGIS)
- 27. © Geovation 2015 33 Data source Dataset Theme Ordnance Survey (OS) Local Terrain 50 Rivers Topography (Open) Vector Map Local Terrain 5 Water Network Topography (Premium) Boundary Line Address Base Administrative (Open) AddressBase Places Administrative (Premium) Consumer indications Environment Agency (EA) River basin districts Administrative Catchment management areas Agricultural land use LIDAR/land cover Topography Water resource availability (sub-catchment level) Water abstraction by purpose Waterbody ecological status Resource statistics Flood risk zones Risks OS, OPEN DATA & WATER
- 28. © Geovation 2015 34 Data source Dataset Theme Defra/JNCC (INSPIRE data.gov.uk) Habitats and species Bathing waters Ecology Forestry Commission National forests Ecology Waterfootprint.org Crop (food) water foot prints by local Resource statistics Office for National Statistics (ONS) Resident population by sub-ward Work place population by ward Households by sub-ward Demographic statistics Consumer indications Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH) Hydrology e.g. catchment chemistry Land use Resource statistics Infrastructural indications British Geological (BGS) Geology and hydrology e.g. groundwater, Resource statistics Met Office Weather prediction models Observational data Rainfall Satellite data Weather (DataPoint API) Regional… e.g. London Datastore (Greater London Authority) London water quality by borough Resource statistics OS, OPEN DATA & WATER
- 29. Could you be the next Geovation innovator? The open data is in your hands. © Geovation 2015 35
- 30. Thank you www.geovation.uk © Geovation 2015 36