Open SeasonOpening and enabling GI for developer and user communities

Peter ter HaarDirector of ProductsOrdnance Survey Great Britain

Enabling Spatial Data Infrastructures through “open” relationships

Realising that ‘open’ enables spatial data infrastructures, touching all of Ordnance Survey’s operations and those of its stakeholders

• Web focused product development, open standards

• Product licensing and partner equivalent licensing

• Supporting application development through open technology

• GI community benefits greater than individual

• Content capture and delivery

• Supporting product development through collaboration

All benefiting the dissemination and use of geospatial data

1. Open Standards

• 2001: GML as supply format for OS MasterMap (GML 2.1.2)

• OS On Demand

• Active supporters of Open Geospatial Consortium

• New products will support open standards• Existing products will see standards evolve

2: Open Source

Open Source support for INSPIRE

• Build a reference implementation for INSPIRE

• Support the Open Source projects to make the required changes

• Make our knowledge about implementation available to Data Publishers and the wider network

3: OS OpenData

“Making Public Data Public”

OS OpenData

Opening up of Ordnance Survey data as part of the drive to increase innovation, and support the government’s ‘Making Public Data Public’ initiative.

What data is included?• OS Street View®• OS VectorMap™ District• 1:250 000 Scale Colour Raster• Code-Point® Open• Boundary-Line™• OS Locator™• 1:50 000 Scale Gazetteer®• Meridian™ 2• Strategi®• MiniScale®• Land-Form PANORAMA®

OS VectorMapTM District

OS VectorMap District is a mid-scale digital raster and vector mapping product giving a district-level view. It clearly shows the landscape features relevant to its level of detail, including generalised buildings, roads, railways, landscape features, boundaries and rivers. OS VectorMap District is a new product being issued as an alpha release under OS OpenData. It has been designed for viewing either as a map on its own or as a context backdrop to your own data, which can be overlaid using a GIS.

OS OpenData applications

OS StreetView being integrated into OpenStreet Map and Infoterra MoreMap

OS OpenData 3rd party webservicesEDINA Unlock places API

UK Postcode data API

http://www.uk-postcodes.com/

http://unlock.edina.ac.uk/index.html

OS OpenData 3rd party supply

OS OpenData and fraud prevention

OS OpenData mobile applications

4: Open access to licensing

“Freemium” Business Model

Topographic MappingBusiness Consumer

Address Location

Route Networks

OS MasterMapTopography

Layer

OS VectorMapLocal (1:10,000)

OS StreetView(1:10,000)

OS VectorMap District

(!:25-50,000)

OS MasterMap AddressLayer

CodePointWith Polygons

CodePointOpen

Boundary Line

OS MasterMapIntegrated

Transport Layer

Meridian2

Strategi

OS Explorer1:25 000

OS LandRanger1: 50 000

1: 250 000Raster

MiniScale

TerrainModels

LandformProfile Plus

LandformProfile

LandformPanorama

Free Licence

Premium Licence

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Four “families” of licences

• OS OpenData • Data “free at the point of use” under Open Government licence• Available to consumers, developers and corporate users

• Public Sector Mapping Agreement• Data “free at the point of use” to all central and local government users and

their contactors – funded centrally• Very extensive rights – only commercial use excluded

• Business Use Licensing• Data available at commercial rates to all commercial users to support their

businesses• Available direct from Ordnance Survey or through resellers

• Licensing for value-add products• Data available for partners to on-sell and create value added products to meet

market needs eg Publishing, Insurance• Available through partners only

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Partnerships underpin everything we do

Clarity about what is allowed and what is not

Mapping underground assetsby inferring location

Mapping fire hydrants using GPS

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Is a licence required for derived data?

Coordinates + attribution

Tracing boundaries basedOn OS chargeable products

License simplification

‘Discover’ Data Licence

Thank you for your interest in this Sample Data. The terms and conditions below set out a legal agreement between you and Ordnance Survey for your use of the Sample Data. Please read these terms carefully. If you do not agree to these terms and conditions, you should not use, download or access the Sample Data.

1 The Sample Data belongs to the Crown (or its suppliers).2 Ordnance Survey grants you a limited, personal, non‑exclusive, non‑transferable, free‑of‑charge and fully terminable licence to use the Sample Data for the purpose of internal testing and evaluation only. By way of example, this means that you are not permitted to (i) sub‑license, transfer, share or otherwise distribute the Sample Data to any other person; (ii) incorporate the Sample Data into your products or services (unless solely for the purposes of internal testing and evaluation); or (iii) commercially exploit the Sample Data.3 The Sample Data is provided “as is” and without any warranty as to quality, fitness for purpose, accuracy, availability or otherwise. You acknowledge that it is your responsibility to ensure that the Sample Data is suitable for your intended purposes.4 To the fullest extent permitted by law, Ordnance Survey excludes all liability for any loss or damage of whatever nature arising from any use of the Sample Data.5 You agree that Ordnance Survey (and its suppliers) shall retain all rights, title and interest in the Sample Data, including but not limited to any and all copyrights, patents, trade marks, trade secrets and all other intellectual property rights.6 You agree not to tamper with or remove any copyright, trade mark, trade mark symbol or other proprietary notice of Ordnance Survey (or its suppliers) contained in the Sample Data.7 Ordnance Survey may terminate this agreement immediately if you breach any of the terms and conditions. Ordnance Survey also reserves the right to terminate the agreement at any time on giving you thirty (30) days written notice (which may be given by email or by posting a notification on Ordnance Survey’s website).8 These terms and conditions are governed by English law, and you agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.

© Crown copyright and/or database right 2009 Ordnance Survey

5: Open Innovation – GeoVation

How the GeoVation Challenge programme works

‘How can Britain feed itself?’ camp

5–7 Nov 2010‘How can we

improve transport in Britain?’

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GeoVation Challenge: launched 28 September

Where to from here?

• Open(er) Product Development

• build a network of trust, we have to earn that trust

• gives sight of developments, brings our customers and stakeholders on the journey with us

• allows us to be flexible with development

• allows us to benchmark against the community development roadmap

• Open(er) Data Collection

• Initial focus on expert sourcing

The Dos and Don’ts of Opening up Data

Don’t…

• Just release data and expect people to understand or create with it. Publication is not the same as communication

• Wait for FOI requests, put the data out first informally

• Be late in releasing data

• Rely on future technology to solve today’s problems

• Go straight for the finished article, use rapid prototyping

• Wait for the big budget or formal process but start big things with small amounts now

• Expect people to interpret the data in the same way you do

• Be technology led, be business led instead

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Seminar on Underpinning Innovation with Geography at the Science and Innovation 2010 Conference, 16 June 2010

The Dos and Don’ts of Opening up Data

Do…

• Set out to create commercial or social value with data

• Make sure data quality is and remains high

• Promote innovation using government data sets. Transparency is only a means to an end

• Enhance communication with the public e.g. Hack Warwickshire

• Incentivise developers

• Create a strong external community

• Be brave – people may do things with the data that you don't like

• Use open source software wherever possible

Seminar on Underpinning Innovation with Geography at the Science and Innovation 2010 Conference, 16 June 2010

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Innovate or Die

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Peter ter Haar

Director of Products

Phone: +44(0)23 8030 5255 (until 7/1/2011)

Phone: +44(0)23 8005 6007 (from 10/1/2011)

Email: Peter.terHaar@ordnancesurvey.co.uk

Website: www. ordnancesurvey.co.uk

Ordnance Survey

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SOUTHAMPTON

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