Case Study Index
Implementing the Countryside and Rights of Way act
using the Digital National Framework
The Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 established the need to identify and map open country and registered common land in England. This was the first large project to employ DNF principles. By reusing and referencing the topographic features in the landscape, the project was transformed from a wholly data capture programme to one of predominantly information collection and attribution...
Adding Value to the Isle of Wight Street Gazetteer
using the Digital National Framework
Isle of Wight Council has successfully migrated their street gazetteer using the Digital National Framework (DNF) principles, using the model previously piloted in Oxfordshire...
Achieving Interoperability at Staffordshire County Council
using the Digital National Framework
Using Digital National Framework (DNF) principles, Staffordshire County Council worked with spatial data experts 1Spatial to prove and achieve an open and interoperable solution to data management. By sharing regional mapping data across the organisation, a single repository was created for business and spatial data to be stored together, which meets Staffordshire County Council’s initial business requirement of improved spatial data access and sharing.
Creating the Oxfordshire Street Gazetteer
using the Digital National Framework
In February 2004 Oxfordshire County Council linked its component of the National Street Gazetteer (NSG) to the Integrated Transport Network (ITN) Layer of OS MasterMap using principles defined in the Digital National Framework (DNF)...
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Building a single-geometry land and property database at Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council
using the Digital National Framework
With local authorities required to make their data available internally, for public services and for wider public access, Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council (DMBC) needed to share and integrate data held in disparate application databases while maintaining a corporate data system. This required the integrity of the information within each database to be unquestionable and interoperable...
Creating Ordnance Survey's Integrated Transport Network
using the Digital National Framework
Before the Topography Layer of OS MasterMap had been launched in November 2001, Ordnance Survey started work on considering the options to re-engineer other associated layers to ensure they met the demands of future applications. The choice to use Digital National Framework (DNF) principles had been established and it was only a question of how this would be done. The Integrated Transport Network (ITN), a national road centreline network with routing and restriction information, was released in 2003...