Rapid prototyping of new and improved products is key to Ordnance Survey being able to understand and respond to customer feedback, and create evermore innovative products. The presentation will go through a variety of products that have been created by the product development team over the last year, including Gazetteers and 3D models and explain how FME has helped to deliver them. As a taster: One product allowed customers, i.e. the emergency services, to quickly find access points to prominent places like schools, airports, etc... FME enabled us to bring many data sources togther, perform complex spatial tasks and write out to numerous data formats. Another produced 3D models for a customer to allow them to see what there data looked like in 3D space before work on a national data model was undertaken. All of these would not have been possible without the flexibility of FME and the endless possibilities that it provides.

1. Baz Newman
Senior Product Developer
11th June 2014
Rapid Product Prototyping
in Ordnance Survey

2. • Who am I and who is Ordnance Survey
• Product Development
• The variety of projects
• How FME is invaluable to us
Overview

3. • Been at Ordnance Survey for 10 years
• Worked in Cartography for over 8 years
• Been a Senior Product Developer for the last year and a half
• Love playing sport
Bit about me

4. Who is Ordnance Survey?
The
Na'onal
Mapping
Authority
of
Great
Britain
An
informa'on
service
provider
• Creates
and
maintains
the
defini've
na'onal
database
of
geographical
informa'on
• Updated
with
5
000
changes
every
day
by
dedicated
surveyors
• Used
to
create
a
wide
range
of
digital
data
products
as
well
as
paper
maps
• Draws
on
skills
of
1
500
staff

5. Product Development

6. Brief
• In preparation for a new production system devise a way to automatically place
and snap existing contour value labels onto new contours
• Current contour labelling not intelligent enough
• Data sources
• iDTM contours
• ESRI Geodatabase text feature classes
Contour Value Placement Problem
Solving

7. Contour Value Placement

8. Contour Value Placement

9. Contour Value Placement

10. Contour Value Placement

11. Brief
• Create some prototype illustrative .csv data
• Show relationships between features
• Data sources:
• OS MasterMap® Integrated Transport Network™ (ITN) Layer
• Boundary-Line
• In house settlement names database
Illustrative Gazetteer

12. Illustrative Gazetteer

13. Illustrative Gazetteer

14. Illustrative Gazetteer

15. Illustrative Gazetteer – Sample Data

16. Gazetteer prototype web front end

17. The Gazetteer will contain,
amongst other attributes:
• Unique IDs
• Road names and numbers
• Settlements by hierarchy
• Postcodes
And will be incrementally updated
with further themes each release,
such as;
• Hills and mountains
• Forests
• Lakes
Gazetteer of Great Britain

18. Brief
• Create a prototype 3D PDF
• Will be used to show customers what could be done with their data
• Data sources:
• .DGN file supplied to us by the customer
Illustrative 3D PDF

19. Illustrative 3D PDF

20. Illustrative 3D PDF

21. Illustrative 3D PDF

22. Brief
• Transform raw data to product specification
• Build a fulfilment system that can produce specific area of interest alpha data to
enable delivery to customers
• Source data
• Building height information
• Contract Polygon Store
• OS MasterMap® Topography Layer
OS MasterMap® Topography Layer
Building Height Attribute: Alpha

23. Product Creation
=
Digital Terrain
Model
Digital Surface
Model
OS MasterMap
Topography
Layer
Building Height
Attribute

24. OS MasterMap® Topography Layer -
Building Height Attribute: Alpha

25. OS MasterMap® Topography Layer -
Building Height Attribute: Alpha

26. OS MasterMap® Topography Layer -
Building Height Attribute: Alpha

27. OS MasterMap® Topography Layer -
Building Height Attribute: Alpha

28. Visualisation

29. Brief
• Create some prototype beta data for OSMM Sites Layer
• Will go out to customers to show what the final product will look like
• Data sources
• Functional Sites
• Access Points
• OS MasterMap® Integrated Transport Network™ (ITN) Layer
OS MasterMap® Sites Layer Beta

30. OS MasterMap® Sites Layer Beta

31. OS MasterMap® Sites Layer Beta

32. OS MasterMap® Sites Layer Beta

33. OS MasterMap® Sites Layer Beta

34. OS MasterMap® Sites Layer Beta

35. OS MasterMap® Sites Layer Beta

36. Routing Points
Access Points
OS MasterMap® Sites Layer Beta

37. OS MasterMap® Sites Layer Beta

38. • Vast array of projects come through the Product Development team at Ordnance
Survey
• FME is vital to many of them
• Without the use of FME some projects would take a lot longer to complete and
some of the past projects would never have been delivered on time
Summary

40. Baz Newman
barrie.newman@ordnancesurvey.co.uk