Case Studies

The importance of access to green outdoor spaces in relation to health and wellbeing is clear. However, deprived areas are less likely to have access to green space and gardens.

In 2021 the Government allocated £9 million of funding to a ‘Levelling Up Parks Fund’ to help...

Ordnance Survey and DHSC worked together to develop a tool to calculate the distance from care homes to population centres, using open-source coding tools.

This case study describes how Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) worked with Ordnance Survey (OS) as part of its Smart Meter 868MHz HAN trial to predict the number of premises at which a 868MHz HAN solution would work.

Through this OS supplied a tabular, spatially-derived datas...

Transport for London (TfL) have experimented with an e-scooter rental trial, to better understand the environmental outcomes of alternative transport.

Data was collected to assess the results of the trial and help inform future policy.

HM Land Registry safeguards land and property ownership valued at £7 trillion. The Land Register contains more than 25 million titles, showing evidence of ownership for more than 87% of the land mass of England and Wales.

Ordnance Survey’s large-scale data is vital to the land...

The Office for Zero Emission Vehicles (OZEV) with the Environment Statistics (ES) team at the Department for Transport (DfT) are currently planning the future provision across the UK of electric vehicle (EV) charge points, as part of the commitment by Government to reduce emissions by 2050.

In response to the government’s Emergency Active Travel Fund (EATF), OS Partner, Road Safety Analysis and the Agilysis team used OS MasterMap Highways combined with their own data, to create a tool enabling local authorities to assess their active travel network.

The EATF is providin...

Since the turn of the millennium Ordnance Survey recognised that almost all new and emerging technologies, and the products and services derived from these, require location data to function at their best. Ordnance Survey also recognised that the data our customers needed, and how and when they w...

Dubai Municipality is responsible for helping realise the Dubai government vision, ‘to make Dubai the happiest city on Earth’.

Its focus is on areas such as urban planning, safety and security, sustainable development and environmental protection – all of which rely on ge...